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Statutes Relating 



TO 



Wild Animals 



These laws are in force and effect until 

changed by the legislature of 1923, or 

changed under Section 29.21 




Published by the 

STATE OF WISCONSIN 

Madison, 1921 



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STATE CONSERVATION 

COMMISSION OF 

WISCONSIN 



Statutes Relating 



TO 



Wild Animals 



These laws are in force and effect until 

changed by the legislature of 1923, or 

changed under Section 29.21 







Published by the 

STATE OP WISCONSIN 

Madison, 1921 









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FOREWORD 



The revised edition of 1921 of the laws gov- 
erning the taking of fish and game in Wisconsin 
contains all the new measures enacted by the 
Legislature of 1921. The changes effected are 
not numerous but they are important and every 
sportsman of the state as well as every person 
who occasionally hunts or fishes should famil- 
iarize himself with them. 

The Commission takes this occasion to ex- 
press its gratitude to the sportsmen of the state 
for their loyal co-operation in seeing that the 
protective measures were enforced and it hopes 
for a continuation of that co-operation. Such 
laws, having for their chief purposes the per- 
petuation, of good hunting and fishing in Wis- 
consin, will of necessity prove ineffective unless 
they have back of them the spirit of co-opera- 
tion which the many sportsmen of the state 
have for the past six years fostered. The Com- 
mission cannot too often repeat what it has 
many times expressed, that the regulatory meas- 
ures enforced by the Conservation Commission 
are not meant to deprive the public of the 
pleasure of hunting, fishing and trapping, but 
to enlarge and perpetuate those pleasures. There 
is not a law in the whole list of these laws 
regulating the taking of fish and game that does 
not make for this end. This being the purpose 
of the laws the Conservation Commission is 
called upon to administer, the duty to strictly 
enforce them is plain. The conservation of the 



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fish and game means an increase in the coun- 
try's food supply. Men who, in the spirit of 
recklessness or sheer selfishness, disregard these 
laws deserve to be severely dealt with, and will 
be. 

W. E. Babbee, 
C. L. Habbington, 
B. O. Websteb, 

Commissioners. 
R. S. Scheibel, Secretary. 



LIST OF STATE CONSERVATION 

WARDENS 

Name Address County 

Boomer, I. H., Oshkosh, Box 351, Winnebago 
Bosworth, E. F., Merrill, Lincoln 
Brunet, A. R., Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac 
Carter, J. B., Rice Lake, Barron 
Clawson, W. P., Three Lakes; Oneida 
Cole, W. A., Vesper, Wood 
Curtis, P. S., Viroqua, Vernon 
Devine, Barney, Wausau, Marathon 
Devine, Thomas, Spooner, Washburn 
Diedrich, -Peter, Milwaukee, 

491 Superior St., Milwaukee 
Dockham, F. A., Baraboo, Sauk 
Egan, John, Manitowoc, Manitowoc 
Elliott, W. P., Whitewater, Walworth 
Fess, Edward, Madison, Dane 
Fosnot, J. B., Tomahawk, Lincoln 
Fisher, F. W., Oconto Falls, Oconto 
Gautsch, E. W., La Crosse, La Crosse 
Grey, W. T., Ashland, Box 306, Ashland 
Gruebner, H. C, Sheboygan, 

1330 N. 16th St., Sheboygan 
Gwidt, S. J., Rhinelander, Oneida 
Hall, A. W., Darlington, LaFayette 
Hendrickson, Hans, Two Rivers, Manitowoc 
Hilliker, Earl, Tunnel City, Monroe 
Holmes, A. A., Trempealeau, Trempealeau 
Hope, Andrew, Hudson, St. Croix 
Hornberg, Frank, Stevens Point, Portage 
Jeske, Louis, Sturgeon Bay, Door 
Keeler, J. G., Bagley, Grant 
Keys, W. A., Princeton, Green Lake 



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Kleist, Michael, Medford, Taylor 
Lanning, B. P., Black River Falls, Jackson 
Lee, Albert, Luck, Polk 
Mackenzie, H. W., Antigo, Langlade 
McNaughton, James, Superior, E. E., Douglas 
Oberholtzer, H. J., Eagle River, Vilas 
Powell, A. W., Bayfield, Bayfield 
Pugh, John, Racine, 1020 Park Ave., Racine 
Raeth, Valentine, Milwaukee, 

432 E. North Ave., Milwaukee 
Randall, Frank, Waupaca, Waupaca 
Richtman, S. P., Fountain City, Buffalo 
Russell, F. F., Park Falls, Price 
Sampson, Andrew, Stoughthon, Dane 
Smith, Denton H., Marinette, 

825 Wells St., Marinette 
Smith, Ira G. s Green Bay, Box 255, Brown 
Soule, L. M., Ladysmith, Rusk 
Swant, M. F., Menomonie, Dunn 
Tic, Arthur, Shawano, Shawano 
Tiedemann, H. C, Thorp, Clark 
Tuttle, E. W., Oconomowoc, Waukesha 
Upson, E. D., Merrillan, Jackson 
Wismer, W. W., Hayward, Sawyer 
Worden, J. D., Plainfield, Waushara 
Weaver, E. M„ Woodruff, Oneida 



WISCONSIN STATUTES 

Chapter 29 

Wild Animals, and the Regulation o£ the 
Enjoyment, Disposition and Con- 
servation Thereof. 

GENERAL CONTROL AND REGULATION 

29.01 General Definitions. The following 
terms, wherever used in this chapter, shall be 
construed to apply as follows: 

(1) Wild animal. "Wild animal" means any 
mammal, bird, fish, or other creature of a wild 
nature endowed with sensation and the power 
of voluntary motion. 

(2) Carcass. "Carcass" means the dead body 
of any wild animal to which it refers, including 
the head, hair, skin, plumage, skeleton, or any 
other part thereof. 

(3) Game; game fish. "Game" includes all 
varieties of wild mammals or birds; "game fish" 
includes all varieties of fish except rough fish; 
"rough fish" includes chubs, dace, suckers, carp, 
red horse, sheephead, eelpout, dogfish, garfish, 
buffalo fish, hackelback sturgeon weighing more 
than one pound dressed, spoonbill sturgeon over 
thirty inches in length, catfish over twenty 
inches in length, and lawyers, in all waters. 

(4) Waters classified. All waters within the 
jurisdiction of the state are classified as fol- 
lows: Lakes Superior and Lake Michigan, 
Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, Sawyer's Harbor, and 
the Fox river from its' mouth up to the dam at 



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De Pere are "outlying waters." All other wa- 
ters are "inland waters." 

(5) Hunting. "Hunt" or "hunting" includes 
shooting, shooting at, pursuing, taking, catch- 
ing, or killing of any wild animal or animals. 

29.02 Title to Wild Animals. (1) The legal 
title to, and the custody and protection of, all 
wild animals within this state is vested in the 
state for the purposes of regulating the enjoy- 
ment, use, disposition, and conservation thereof. 

(2) The legal title to any such wild animal, 
or carcass or part thereof, taken or reduced to 
possession in violation of this chapter, remains 
in the state; and the title to any such wild ani- 
mal, or carcass or . part thereof, lawfully ac- 
quired, is subject to the condition that upon the 
violation of any of the provisions of this chapter 
relating to the possession, use, giving, sale, bar- 
ter, or transportation of such wild animal, or 
carcass or part thereof-, by the holder of such 
title* the same shall revert, ipso facto, to the 
state. In either case, any such wild animal, or 
carcass or part thereof, may be seized forthwith, 
wherever found, by the state conservation com- 
mission or its deputies. 

29.03 Public Nuisances. The following are 
declared public nuisances: 

(1) Any unlicensed net of any kind, or other 
unlicensed device, trap, or contrivance for fish- 
ing; or any licensed net or other device, trap or 
contrivance for fishing set, placed, or found in 
any waters where the same is prohibited to be 
used, or in a manner prohibited by law. 

(2) Any unlicensed set line, cable, rope, or 
line, with more than one fish line attached there- 
to; or any licensed set line set, placed, or found 






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in any waters where the same is prohibited to 
be used, or in a manner prohibited by law; or 
'any fish line left in the water unattended, 
whether having one or more hooks attached. 

(3) Any screen set in public waters to pre- 
vent the free passage of fish, or set in any 
stream which has been stocked by state author- 
ities. 

(4) Any building, enclosure, structure, or 
shelter placed, occupied, or used on the ice of 
any waters in violation of this chapter. 

(5) Any unlicensed trap, snare, spring gun, 
set gun, net or other device or contrivance 
which might entrap, ensnare, or kill game. 

(6) Any boat, together with its machinery, 
sails, tackle and equipment, or any lamp, light, 
pivot gun, swivel gun, or other firearm used in 
violation of this chapter; or any boat, floating 
raft, box, or blind set in open water and used in 
hunting game birds. 

(7) Any decoys set in any water during the 
close season for water-fowl, or in excess of the 
number authorized to be used, or more than two 
hundred feet from the weeds, rushes, or other 
vegetation in which the hunter is concealed; 
and any decoys left in the water unattended. 

(8) Any dog found running deer at any time, 
or used in violation of this chapter. 

(9) Any ferret, rat, weasel, or guinea-pig in 
possession or used while hunting. 

29.04 (1) Abandoned Dams. The state con- 
servation commission may remove or cause to 
be removed, in such manner as they may deem 
fit, old and abandoned dams in streams in the 
state of Wisconsin, upon giving sixty days' no- 
tice in writing to the owner thereof, if he can 



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be found. If the owner of such dam be un- 
known or cannot, - by due diligence, be found, 
the commission shall publish notice once each 
week for four successive weeks in some news- 
paper published in the county in which such 
dam is situated. 

(2) Whenever the conservation commission 
shall determine that the conservation of any 
species or variety of wild animals will be pro- 
moted thereby, the commission is authorized to 
maintain and repair any dam located wholly 
upon lands the title to which is in the state 
either as proprietor or in trust for the people; 
subject, however, to the powers of the railroad 
commission to fix the level and regulate the 
flow of the public waters. 

29.05. Police Powers; Searches; Seizures. 
(1) Arrests. The state conservation commis- 
sion and its deputies are hereby authorized to 
execute and serve all warrants and processes is- 
sued by any justice of the peace or police magis- 
trate or by any court having jurisdiction under 
any law relating to wild animals, in the same 
manner as any constable may serve and execute 
such process; and to arrest, with or without a 
warrant, any person detected in the actual vio- 
lation, or whom such officer has reasonable 
cause to believe guilty of the violation of any 
of the provisions of this chapter, and to take 
such person before any court in the county 
where the offense was committed and make 
proper complaint. 

(2) Investigations. Such officers shall., upon 
receiving notice or information that any provi- 
sion of this chapter has been violated, as soon 
as possible make a thorough investigation 



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thereof, and cause proceedings to be instituted 
if the proofs at hand warrant it. 

(3) Search warrants. Upon complaint made 
to any magistrate who has authority to issue 
warrants in criminal cases, by any person that 
he knows or has good reason to believe that 
any wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, 
caught, taken, killed, or had in possession con- 
trary to the provisions of this chapter, is con- 
cealed in any particular house or place, the 
magistrate shall examine such complainant on 
oath, reduce his complaint to writing, describ- 
ing as particularly as may be the place where 
said wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, is 
alleged to be concealed, and cause the same to 
be subscribed by the person complaining. If it 
appears to the magistrate that there is reason- 
able cause to believe that the facts alleged in 
said complaint are true he shall immediately 
issue his warrant, reciting therein the sub- 
stance of the complaint and a description of 
the premises described therein, and requiring 
the officer to whom it is directed to forthwith 
search such premises and seize any such wild 
animal, or carcass or part thereof, and bring 
the same when found, and the person in whose 
possession the same is found, before the magis- 
trate who issued the warrant, or before some 
other magistrate or court having jurisdiction of 
the case. The officer executing such warrant shall 
state in his return, as particularly as may be, 
the property seized, which shall be safely kept 
under the direction of the court or magistrate 
so long as necessary for the purpose of being 
used as evidence on any trial; and if such trial 



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results in a conviction, the property so seized 
shall be confiscated. 

(4) Opening packages. The state conserva- 
tion commission and its deputies may examine 
and open any packages in the possession of a 
common carrier which they suspect or have rea- 
son to believe contains contraband wild animals, 
or carcasses or parts thereof, or is falsely la- 
beled in violation of the provisions of this chap- 
ter* and every such common carrier, and every 
agent, servant, or employe thereof, shall permit 
any such officer to examine and open any such 
package. Any package so opened shall be re- 
stored to its original condition. 

(5) Access to storage places. They shall be 
permitted by the owner or occupant of any cold 
storage warehouse or buildings used for the 
storage or retention of wild animals, or car- 
casses or parts thereof, to enter and examine 
said premises; and the said owner or occupant, 
or his agent, servant, or employe, shall deliver 
to any such officer any wild animal, or carcass 
or part thereof, in his possession during the 
close season therefor, whether taken within or 
without the state. 

(6) Seizure and confiscation of game, or game 
fish. They shall seize and confiscate in the 
name of the state any wild animal, or carcass 
or part thereof, caught, killed, taken, had in 
possession or under control, sold or transported 
in violation of this chapter; and any such officer 
may, with or without warrant, open, enter and 
examine all buildings, camps, vessels or boats in 
inland or outlying waters, wagons, automobiles 
or other vehicles, cars, stages, tents, suit-cases, 
valises, packages and other receptacles and 



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places where he has reason to believe that wild 
animals, taken or held in violation of this chap- 
ter, are to be found; but no dwelling house or 
sealed railroad cars shall be searched for the 
above purposes without a warrant. 

(7) Seizure and confiscation of property. 
They shall seize and forthwith confiscate or de- 
stroy any apparatus, appliance, or device de- 
clared by any provision of this chapter to be a 
public nuisance; and shall seize and hold sub- 
ject to the order of the commission, any other 
apparatus, appliance, or any vehicle, or device, 
which they shall have reason to believe is being 
used in violation of this chapter, and if it be 
proven that the same is, or has been within six 
months previous to such seizure, used in viola- 
tion of this chapter the same shall be confis- 
cated. 

(8) Entire shipment affected. Confiscation 
of any part of a shipment under this section 
shall include the entire shipment. 

(9) Exemption from liability. Each commis- 
sioner and each deputy conservation warden, in 
the performance of his official duties, shall be 
exempt from any and all liability to any person 
for acts done or permitted or property destroyed 
by authority of law; and if any action brought 
against any such commissioner or warden per- 
sonally, arising from alleged excess of his au- 
thority, the taxable costs awarded to either 
party shall include a reasonable attorney's fee, 
to be fixed by the court, provided the party has 
appeared therein by an attorney of a court of 
record. 

29.06. Sales of Confiscated Game and Appar- 
atus. (1) All confiscated wild animals, or 



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carcasses or parts thereof, and all confiscated 
apparatus, appliances, or devices shall, if not 
destroyed as authorized by law, be sold at the 
highest price obtainable, by the state conserva- 
tion commission or its deputies, or by an agent 
on commission under the written authority and 
supervision of the state conservation commis- 
sion or its deputies. The net proceeds of such 
sales, after deducting the expense of seizure 
and sale and any such commissions, shall be 
promptly remitted by the warden by whom 
or under whose authority and supervision the 
sales are made, to the state conservation com- 
mission and by it paid into the state treasury; 
the remittance to be accompanied by a com- 
plete and certified report of such sales, sup- 
ported by proper vouchers covering all deduc- 
tions made for expenses and commissions, to be 
filed for record in the office of the state con- 
servation commission. 

(2>"On any such sales of wild animals, or 
carcasses or parts thereof, the warden or agent 
selling them shall issue to each purchaser a 
certificate, on forms to be prepared and fur- 
nished by the state conservation commission, 
covering such sales. The animals, or carcasses 
or parts thereof, so purchased shall be con- 
sumed or otherwise disposed of by the pur- 
chaser within five days thereafter, but shall not 
be resold, bartered, or exchanged, in whole or 
in part, to any other person, except as pro- 
vided in subsection (3). 

(3) Confiscated fish or game sold to the 
keeper, manager, or steward of any restaurant, 
club, hotel, or boarding house may be served to 
the guests thereof; but in such case the certifi- 



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cate covering the purchase shall be hung in 
public view in the place where the fish or game 
is served, and such fish or game shall at the 
time of sale be tagged by the warden or agent 
selling it, such tag to show the date of sale 
and be returned to said warden or agent within 
five days thereafter. 

29.07 Assistance of Police Officers. All sher- 
iffs, deputy sheriffs, coroners, and other police 
officers are ex officio deputy conservation war- 
dens, and shall assist the state conservation 
commission and its deputies in the enforcement 
of this chapter whenever notice of a violation 
thereof is given to either of them by the com- 
mission or its deputies. 

29.08 Interstate Comity. (1) Whenever and 
so long as any other state confers upon the offi- 
cers of this state reciprocal powers, any officer 
of such other state, who is by the laws of said 
state authorized or directed to enforce the laws 
of said state relating to the protection of wild 
animals, is hereby designated an agent of said 
state within this state. It shall be lawful for 
said officer to follow any wild animal, or carcass 
or part thereof unlawfully shipped or taken 
from his state into this state, seize and convey 
the same back to his own state; and so far as 
concerns any such wild animal, or carcass or 
part thereof, the laws of the state from which 
the same was brought into this state are hereby 
adopted as the laws of this state. Transporta- 
tion companies shall deliver to such officer, 
upon submission of proper proof of his official 
capacity, any wild animal, or carcass or part 
thereof, so demanded or seized by him. Said 
officer may dispose of any such wild animal, 



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or carcass or part thereof, within this state, in 
accordance with the laws of the state from 
which the same was taken or shipped, under the 
supervision of any conservation commissioner 
or deputy conservation warden of this state, 
whose expenses for his assistance shall be a 
lien upon such wild animal or carcass or part 
thereof, or the proceeds thereof. 

(2) Except as provided in subsection (1), the 
state conservation commission or its deputies 
shall seize, hold and dispose, according to the 
laws of this state, of any wild animal, or car- 
cass or part thereof, brought or shipped into 
or through this state, or attempted to be car- 
ried through this state, in violation of the laws 
of any other state. 

(3) The state game warden of every other 
state, and his deputies and all other officers 
therein charged with the enforcement of the 
laws relating to wild animals are hereby desig- 
nated" agents of this state for the taking posses- 
sion, seizing, holding and disposing, within such 
state, of any wild animal, or carcass or part 
thereof, protected by the laws of this state. 

(4) Whenever and so long as any other state 
confers upon the officers of this state reciprocal 
powers, the state conservation commission is 
hereby authorized to appoint persons who shall 
have been appointed conservation wardens or 
deputy conservation wardens of such other state 
to act as and have all the powers of deputy con- 
servation wardens of this state, but without com- 
pensation from this state. 






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GAME LICENSES 

29.09 General Provisions. (1) Hunting, 
trapping or fishing without a license prohibited. 
Except as expressly provided, no person shall 
hunt, with a gun any wild animal or, trap or 
fish any game or game fish unless a license 
therefor has been duly issued to him which 
shall be carried on his person at the time and 
shall be exhibited to the state conservation 
commission or its deputies on demand. Such 
licenses shall be issued only to natural persons, 
and not more than one of the same series to 
the same person in any year. No licensee shall 
transfer his license or deer tag to or permit the 
use thereof by any other person, nor shall any 
person while hunting, trapping or fishing use 
or carry any license, or guide's badge, issued 
to another. No hunting license shall be issued 
to any person who is less than fifteen years of 
age; nor to any person who is not a citizen of 
the United States. Indians hunting, fishing or 
trapping off Indian reservation lands are sub- 
ject to all provisions of this chapter. 

(2) Form of application. The application 
for such license shall state the residence and 
post-office address of the applicant, a description 
of his person, and such other facts, showing 
him to be entitled to the license for which he 
applies, as may be required by the commission, 
and shall be verified by the affidavit of the ap- 
plicant; but no written or verified application 
shall be required for any hook and line fish- 
ing license. Each such application shall be ac- 
companied by the license fee prescribed for the 
license applied for. 



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(3) Form of license. Each license shall state 
for what year the same is issued and the date 
of expiration, and except as otherwise provided 
shall be effective only from the first day of May 
until the next succeeding thirtieth day of April, 
subject to the conditions, limitations and re- 
strictions prescribed in this chapter. Each 
license issued shall further state the name and 
residence of the licensee, a description of his 
person, and such other matter as may be deter- 
mined by the commission; shall bear upon its 
face a true signature of the licensee; and shall 
be signed by the officer who issues it. 

(4) Duplicates. Whenever any such license 
is lost the person to whom the same was issued 
may present to the commission an affidavit prov- 
ing such loss, together with a fee of fifty cents, 
whereupon the latter shall issue a duplicate 
license to such person. 

(5) Supply of blanks. The commission shall 
prepare, procure the printing of, and supply all 
necessary blanks for such licenses and applica- 
tions. The licenses shall be numbered consecu- 
tively, at the time of printing, in a seperate se- 
ries for each kind of license; and each license 
blank shall be provided with a corresponding 
stub numbered with the serial number of the 
license. Each requisition for the printing of 
such license blanks shall specify the serial num- 
bers thereof. 

(6) Licenses issued by county clerk. Of each 
license issued by a county clerk he shall retain 
the stub for record in his office. He shall also 
keep an alphabetical index of the names of all 
persons to whom he issues licenses, such names 
to be entered therein at the time the licenses 



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are issued. The state conservation commission 
or its deputies may at any time examine such 
records. 

(7) Return of fees oy county clerk. Of the 
fees paid for such licenses the county clerk may 
retain ten per cent as compensation for his 
services to the state; the remainder he shall 
return to the state conservation commission on 
the first day of each month, with a report of 
the number of licenses issued by him during 
the preceding month and the amount of money 
thus remitted. All stubs of licenses issued and 
all unused license blanks shall be returned by 
the county clerk to the commission at the close 
of the year for which they are supplied. 

(8) Record of licenses issued. A complete 
record of all licenses issued shall be kept by the 
commission, which shall also be accountable for 
all unusued license blanks. (Penalty $50.00- 
$100.00.) 

29.10 Resident Hunting Licenses. Resident 
hunting licenses and deer tags shall be issued 
subject to the provisions of section 29.09, by the 
county clerks of the several counties upon 
blanks supplied to them by the state conserva- 
tion commission, to residents of each such 
county duly applying therefor who have re- 
sided in this state for at least one year next 
preceding the application. The fee for each 
such license is one dollar. Such license does 
not grant the privilege of hunting deer unless 
the licensee is in possession of a deer tag which 
shall be issued to him by the county clerk on 
application and the payment of an additional 
fee of twenty-five cents. The commission may 
cause such tags to be issued through agents. 



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but no commission to Be allowed for the sale of 
such tags. (Penalty $50-$100.) 

29.11 Settlers' Hunting Licenses. Settlers' 
hunting licenses subject to the provisions of 
section 29.09 may be issued by the state con- 
servation commission in its discretion, to actual 
settlers in this state duly applying therefor 
who have resided in this state less than one 
year but not less than sixty days next preced- 
ing the application. A bona fide settler shall 
be a person who has either purchased or rented, 
or has negotiations in progress to purchase or 
rent residence property in Wisconsin and who 
has moved to and settled in this state or any 
member of his family of the age of fifteen years 
or over. Such licenses shall be in substan- 
tially the same form, subject to the same con- 
ditions and restrictions, and entitle the holder 
to the same rights, privileges and immunities 
as a resident hunting license. No nonresident 
hunting license shall be issued in the same 
year to any person to whom a settlers' hunting 
license has been issued, and no settlers' hunting 
license to any holder of a nonresident hunting 
license. (Penalty $50-$100.) 

29.12 Nonresident Hunting Licenses. (1) 
Nonresident hunting licenses shall be either 
general or limited, and shall be issued by the 
state conservation commission, subject to the 
provisions of section 29.09, to persons duly ap- 
plying therefor who are not residents of this 
state or who have resided therein less than one 
year next preceding the application. The fee 
for each such general license is fifty dollars, 
and for each such limited license twenty-five 
dollars. 



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(2) Each such general license shall extend to 
the hunting of all wild animals during the 
open season therefor, respectively, and shall be 
accompanied by a deer tag, numbered to corre- 
spond with the license and to be supplied with- 
out additional fee. 

(3) Each such limited license shall extend to 
the hunting of all wild animals during the open 
season therefor, respectively, except deer. The 
holder of such limited license may at any time 
before its expiration surrender the same for 
cancellation, and in lieu thereof, upon payment 
of an additional fee of twenty-five dollars, the 
commission shall issue to him a general license 
as prescribed in subsection (2). (Penalty 
$50.00-$100.00.) 

29.13 Trapping Licenses. (1) Trapping li- 
censes, which shall authorize the use of traps 
for trapping minks, muskrats, raccoons, and 
skunks, shall be issued by the state conserva- 
tion commission, subject to the provisions of 
section 29.09, to persons duly applying therefor 
who have resided in this state for at least one 
year next preceding the application. The fee for 
each such license is two and one-half dollars. 
If a trapper employes any person in trapping, 
a license shall be required for each such per- 
son so employed. Any person under the age 
of sixteen years may secure from the county 
clerk of the county wherein he resides or from 
the conservation commission a boy's trapping 
permit which shall authorize the use of traps 
for the purposes herein named, upon payment 
of a fee of twenty-five cents. The holders of 
such permits shall also be subject to the pro- 
visions of subsections (2) and (3). 



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(2) All shipments of hides must be marked 
showing the number and kinds of hides in the 
package, the name and address of the shipper, 
and the number of his trapping license. 

(3) On or before June first next after the 
expiration of his license, such licensee shall re- 
port to the state conservation commission, by 
affidavit, on blanks furnished by the commis- 
sion, the number of his license, the number and 
value of each variety of animals taken, and 
such other information as may be required on 
the blanks furnished. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

(4) In agricultural lands on which the owner 
or renter resides no person or party shall take 
any beaver or muskrat or mink without a writ- 
ten consent from the owner or occupant of said 
land. (This subsection is a trespass law and 
conservation wardens are not authorized to 
make arrests for trespass.) 

29.135 Fish Dealers' Licenses. (1) Every 
person who deals in fish by operating a whole- 
sale fish market or fish house shall secure a 
license from the state conservation commission, 
subject to the provisions of section 29.09. Every 
such license shall expire on the thirty-first day 
of December, and the fee for such license is 
twenty-five dollars. 

(2) No person holding a license issued under 
the provisions of subsection (1) of this section 
shall transport or cause to be transported, or 
deliver or receive for transportation, any pack- 
age or parcel containing any fish or oarcass or 
part thereof, unless the same is labelled in 
plain English on the address side of such pack- 
age or parcel so as to disclose the name and 
address of the consignor, the name and ad- 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 17 

dress of the consignee, and the number of 
pounds of each kind of fish contained in such 
package or parcel, and the number of his 
license. 

(3) Any person licensed under the provisions 
of subsection (1) of this section who has illegal 
fish in his possession or who violates any of 
the provisions of subsection (2) of this section 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
two hundred dollars nor more than five hun- 
dred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county 
jail for not to exceed six months, or by both 
such fine and imprisonment. 

29.14 Hook and Line Fishing Licenses. (1) 
Any person, other than nonresident males over 
the age of sixteen years, may without a license 
take, catch or kill with hook and line fish of 
any. variety, subject to all other conditions, lim- 
itations and restrictions prescribed in this chap- 
ter. 

(2) Any male nonresident over the age of 
sixteen years shall have the rights of a resident 
to take, catch or kill fish of any variety with 
hook and line in outlying waters; but not in 
inland waters unless a license has been duly 
issued to him, subject to the provisions of sec- 
tion 29.09 by the state conservation commission. 
Each such license shall be provided with three 
coupons each of which shall entitle the licensee 
to make one shipment of game fish as provided 
in section 29.47, but no more. One coupon shall 
be attached to each shipment so made. (Pen- 
alty $50.00-$100.00.) 

The agent of any common carrier who shall 
accept any such shipment without a coupon at- 
tached shall be guilty of a violation of this 



IS State Conservation Commission. 

chapter and shall be punished by a fine of not 
less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty 
dollars. The fee for each such license is two 
dollars but such license shall not extend to 
catching or killing trout of any variety. The 
commision may cause such licenses to be issued 
through agents for a compensation of ten per 
cent of the license fees collected therefor; but 
no such compensation shall be paid to any of its 
regular deputies or other employes. 

(3) No nonresident male over the age of 16 
years shall catch or kill any variety of trout 
with hook and line in inland waters unless a 
license has been duly issued to him subject to 
the provisions of section 29.09 by the state con- 
servation commission. The fee for each such 
license is three dollars. 

29.15 Other Licenses. Guiding licenses, net 
and set line licenses, and clamming licenses, 
shall be issued by the state conservation com- 
mission as provided in subsection (3) of section 
29.22 and sections 29.33, 29.34, 29.35, 29.36, 
29.37, and 29.38, respectively. 

29.16 Interstate License Privileges. When- 
ever and so long as the states of Minnesota or 
Iowa confer upon the licensees of this state re- 
ciprocal rights, privileges and immunities, any 
hook and line or other fishing license, or clam- 
ming license issued by such other state shall en- 
title the licensee to all the rights, privileges and 
immunities, in and upon the boundary waters 
between such state and this state, enjoyed by 
the holders Of equivalent licenses issued by this 
state; subject, however, to the duties, respon- 
sibilities and liabilities imposed on its own 
licensees by the laws of this state. 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 19 

29.17 Certificates to Scientists. (1) The 
state conservation commission may grant, on 
satisfactory testimonials of well-known scien- 
tists only, a certificate to any member of an 
incorporated society of natural history, or to 
any professor of any university, school or col- 
lege, or to any person properly accredited by any 
such institution, or to any custodian of a public 
museum, authorizing such person or institution 
to collect for scientific purposes only, any nests, 
eggs, or wild animals, except deer. Such speci- 
mens may be transported by any common car- 
rier; but no person to whom such certificate is 
issued shall dispose of any such specimen ex- 
cept in exchange for scientific purposes. All 
such certificates shall expire on the first day 
of January following the date of their issue, 
and shall not be transferable. 

(2) The application for such certificate shall 
be made upon blanks to be furnished by the 
state conservation commission, shall be accom- 
panied by a fee of two dollars, and the applicant 
shall execute and deliver to the state conserva- 
tion commission a bond running to the state of 
Wisconsin, in the sum of one hundred dollars, 
with two sureties, and conditioned that if the 
applicant shall well and faithfully observe and 
comply with all the requirements of this sec- 
tion, and the certificate issued thereunder, said 
obligation to be null and void, otherwise to 
remain in full force. Each said surety shall be 
worth and qualify in at least the sum of one 
hundred dollars, over and above all his debts 
and* liabilities, in property within this state 
not exempt from sale on execution. 

(3) The certificate of any person convicted of 



20 St^tb Conservation Commission. 

a violation of this section shall be forfeited and 
revoked, and such convicted person shall not 
be entitled to another certificate for the period 
of one year from and after the date of such 
conviction. 

CLOSE SEASONS 

29.18 Close Seasons for Wild Mammals and 
Birds. A close season is established for each 
variety of wild animals and birds listed in the 
following table, extending during all the time 
in each year except the period embraced within 
the dates, both inclusive, set opposite the name 
of each variety or each locality, respectively, 
in the column headed "Open Season"; and, ex- 
cept as expressly provided in this chapter, no 
person shall hunt or trap any such wild mam- 
mal or bird at any time other than the open 
season therefor, nor in the open season in ex- 
cess of the number designated opposite each 
variety or each locality, respectively, in the 
column headed "Bag Limit," nor wild birds of 
more than one variety except a mixed bag limit 
of twenty each day in the open season, but con- 
taining not more than the bag limit of any one 
variety. Wild ducks and American coots or 
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sive, set opposite the name of each variety of 
each locality, respectively, in the column headed 
"Open Season"; and, except as expressly pro- 
vided in this chapter, no person shall take, cap- 
ture, or kill fish of any such variety with hook 
and line at any time other than the open season 
therefor, nor in the open season in excess of 
the quantity; or under the minimum length for 
each fish, designated opposite each variety or 
each locality, respectively, in the columns 
headed "Bag Limit". Such measurement * of 
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29.19 (13) There shall be no close season for 
hook and line fishiiag, except for large and small 
mouthed black bass, sturgeon and trout, in any 
of the following described waters: In the wa- 
ters of the Mississippi river, Lower Lake St. 
Croix and up the St. Croix river to the Dells, 
the bays and bayous connected therewith and 
in the waters of Juneau, Lafayette, Iowa arid 
Green counties, except in the Wisconsin river 
between Juneau and Adams in the waters of 
lakes "Winnebago in Fond du Lac, Calumet and 
Winnebago counties, in Buffalo lake, Marquette 
county, in Puckaway lake in Marquette and 
Green Lake counties, in Lake Poygan in Winne- 
bago and Waushara counties in lakes Winne- 
conne, Big and Little Butte des Morts in Win- 
nebago county, in the Fox river in Marquette, 
Green Lake, Waushara and Winnebago counties, 
in the Wolf river in Winnebago county and in 
Waupaca county as far as the city limits of 
New London, in the Rock and Crawfish rivers 
and Lake Koshkonong in Rock, Jefferson and 
Dodge counties. During the period from March 
1 to May 31, both dates inclusive, live or dead 
minnows shall not be used for bait in any of 
the above waters specified in Jefferson county. 
The open season in the Mississippi river for 
large and small-mouthed black bass shall be 
June 15 to March 1. The open season for game 
fish in Lake Wisconsin in Columbia and Sauk 
counties shall be June 1 to December 1, except 
large and small mouth bass, which shall be 
under the provisions of the general law. (See 
provisions of Order No. 2 on last pages.) 

29.195 There shall be no closed season ex- 
cept from the first day of March to the sue- 



30 State Conservation Commission. 

ceeding twentieth day of May for any fish, ex- 
cept trout, in Rush lake or in the streams flow- 
ing into said lake, situate in Fond du Lac and 
Winnebago counties, and fish therein may be 
taken in any manner, except with explosives, 
during the open season, except trout; provided, 
that no person shall have more than fifty pounds 
of such fish, taken from said Rush lake or said 
streams flowing into said lake, in his possession 
or under his control in any one day. 

29.196 No person shall take, catch, or kill in 
Starkey's Lake, township of Waterford, Racine 
county, between December 1 and April 1 of 
each year any sunfish or roach in excess of 
twenty each day. (Penalty $50.00 to $100.00.) 

29.20 Close Season for Crawfish and Frogs. 
No person shall take, catch, or kill, in any wa- 
ters of this state, or have in possession, any 
crawfish or crab of any variety between the 
first day of March and the next succeeding first 
day of July; or any frog from March 1 to May 
1 of each year; but nothing in this section 
shall prevent any person from having frogs in 
his possession who is in the business of propa- 
gating frogs, or where the same are used for 
scientific or educational purposes. (Penalty 
$50.00-$100.00.) 

29.206 No person shall take, catch or kill any 
fish m Smith Creek, flowing through sections 
two, ten, fifteen, twenty-two, twenty-seven, 
twenty-eight and thirty-three, in township forty 
north, range one west, in Price county, until 
January 1, 1924. (Also see Orders No. 3 and 
No. 5 in back of book.) 

29.21 Powers of Commission. (1) The state 
conservation commission shall have power to 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 31 

issue orders determining in what manner, in 
what numbers, in what places and at what times 
the taking, catching, or killing of wild animals 
shall be inconsistent with the proper protection, 
propagation and conservation of fish, birds or 
mammals protected by law in this state, and 
the perpetuation of wild life. No such order 
providing protection or additional protection to 
any such wild animals shall be issued except 
upon petition filed with said commissioners, 
and after hearing thereon as hereinafter pro- 
vided. 

(2) Ten or more persons of any township or 
twenty-five or more persons of any county, may 
file with the state conservation commission a 
petition signed with their names and addresses, 
requesting the granting of protection or addi- 
tional protection within such county, to one or 
more species of wild animals designated in said 
petition. And such petition shall state the ex- 
tent such protection or additional protection is 
desired and the grounds therefor. If after 
hearing the petitioners, the conservation com- 
mission shall determine to entertain the peti- 
tion it shall order a public hearing to be held 
thereon within the town or county described in 
the petition, within twenty days from the filing 
of said petition. At least ten days prior to 
such public hearing notice thereof containing 
a brief statement of the grounds upon which 
application is made therefor, and the time and 
place of hearing shall be published in a news- 
paper having a general circulation in the dis- 
trict to be affected, and a copy of such notice 
shall be mailed to each petitioner, at the ad- 
dress given in the petition. 



32 State Conservation Commission. 

(3) If upon such hearing the conservation 
commission find and determine that the protec- 
tion or additional protection requested, is neces- 
sary for the proper protection, propagation and 
conservation of the designated wild animals 
within the designated territory, the commission 
shall issue an order prohibiting or regulating 
during the open season therefor, the taking of 
any or all species of fish, birds or mammals 
within such territory. At least thirty days be- 
fore the date fixed for such order to take effect, 
copies of the same should be filed in the office of 
the clerk for each county containing a district 
or any part of a district in which such order or 
regulation shall apply, and cause the same to be 
published in a newspaper having general circu- 
lation in the town, county or district in which 
such regulations shall apply, or to cause the 
same to be published by means of at least five 
large notices posted in or near public buildings 
or on the highways within said territory, and 
when the territory affected is less than a town- 
ship in area, in conspicuous places on the 
boundaries thereof. 

(4) Any order issued by the state conserva- 
tion commission pursuant to this section shall 
have the force of law, and the penalties pre- 
scribed for violations of the provisions of this 
chapter shall follow and be applicable to viola- 
tions of any such order, to the same effect and 
extent, respectively, as though such order had 
been enacted a part of this chapter. 

(5) Each member of the state conservation 
commission, for the purposes of this section, is 
empowered to administer oaths, certify to of- 
ficial acts, and issue subpoenas to compel the 



Statutes Relating to "Wild Animals. 33 

attendance of witnesses and the production of 
papers, books, accounts, documents and testi- 
mony. In case of failure of any person to com- 
ply with any subpoena of the commission or to 
testify to any matter regarding which he may 
be lawfully interrogated, the circuit court of 
any county or the judge thereof upon application 
of the commission or any member thereof, shall 
issue an order requiring such person to comply 
with such subpoena and to testify, or either, and 
any failure to obey such order of the court may 
be punished by the court as a contempt thereof. 

(6) Each person appearing before the state 
conservation commission by its order shall re- 
ceive for his attendance the fees and mileage 
provided by law for witnesses in civil actions in 
courts of record, which shall be audited and 
paid upon presentation of proper vouchers sworn 
to by such witnesses and certified by the chair- 
man of the commission. 

(29.22) General Restrictions on Hunting. 
(1) No person shall hunt game with any means 
other than the use of a gun held at arm's length 
and discharged from the shoulder; or place, 
spread or set any net, pitfall, snare, spring gun, 
pivot gun, swivel gun, or other similar con- 
trivance for the purpose of catching, or which 
might catch, take or ensnare game; or use or 
have in his possession or under his control any 
ferret, rat, weasel, or guinea-pig while hunting; 
and no person shall carry with him in any 
vehicle or automobile, any gun or rifle unless 
the same is unloaded, and knocked down or 
unloaded and inclosed within a carrying case. 
No person while hunting or in possession of 
firearms shall have in possession or under con- 



34 State Conservation Commission. 

trol any light used "for the purpose of shining 
deer. No person shall shoot with a rifle at 
wild ducks, coot, mud hens, wild geese or brant 
when any such birds are on the surface of the 
water or ice of any lake. No person shall have 
in possession any firearms in territory wherein 
there is an open season for deer for a period of 
five days prior to the opening date for deer 
hunting unless the gun or rifle is unloaded and 
knocked down, or unloaded and within a carry- 
ing case. 

(2) Possession of ferrets. No person shall 
have in his possession or under his control at 
any time any ferret unless a permit therefor 
has been issued to him by the state conservation 
commission but such permit shall not authorize 
the use of any ferret for hunting game except in 
Door county. 

(3) Guide licenses. No person shall engage, 
or be | employed, for any compensation or re- 
ward, to guide, direct, or assist any other per- 
son in hunting, trapping, or fishing unless a 
license therefor, subject to the provisions of 
section 29.09, has been duly issued to him by 
the state conservation commission. The fee for 
each such license is one dollar. The applicant 
shall deliver to the state conservation commis- 
sion an oath of office that he shall well and 
faithfully perform the duties of his office as a 
guide licensed by the state conservation com- 
mission to guide, direct and assist other per- 
sons in hunting, trapping and fishing, and ob- 
serve and comply with all the requirements of 
chapter 29 of the statutes, and of his said guide 
license. This subsection does not apply to the 
employment of labor by, or services rendered 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 35 

to, the licensee of any net fishing license. (Pen- 
alty $50.00-$100.00.) 

(4) Guides as special deputies. Each licensed 
guide may be a special deputy conservation 
warden, appointed by the commission and shall 
execute the same oath of office and bond as re- 
quired by regularly salaried wardens. Licensed 
guides may be employed for temporary service 
as a regular deputy conservation warden, for 
any period not exceeding fifty days in any one 
year, at a compensation to be fixed by the com- 
mission. 

29.23 Deer Hunting. (1) Prohibited meth- 
ods. No person shall hunt deer between one 
hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise, 
of the following morning; or in the water or on 
the ice of any stream, lake, or pond; or with a 
dog or dogs; or with the aid of artificial light; 
nor place any salt in any place for the purpose 
of enticing deer thereto, or construct, occupy, or 
use any elevated scaffold or other device for the 
purpose of hunting, watching for, or killing 
deer. 

(2) Dogs in camps. During the period from 
November 10 to December 10, in the counties 
where there is an open season for deer, no per- 
son shall hunt any wild animal with a dog or 
dogs; nor have a dog or dogs in his possession 
or under his control in or about a hunting or 
logging camp, unless a' permit therefor has been 
issued to him by the state conservation commis- 
sion. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

29.24 Fur-Bearing Animals; Methods of Tak- 
ing. (1) No person shall hunt any mink, or 
muskrat with the aid of any spear, gun, or dog, 



36 State Conservation Commission. 

disturb or molest any raccoon or skunk den or 
tree for the purpose of capturing the raccoons, 
or skunks, or any muskrat house, beaver house 
or beaver dam; or set any trap or traps at any 
time within five hundred feet of any beaver 
house or beaver dam (except under license is- 
sued under section 29.59 (5). 

(2) The owner or occupant of any land, and 
any member of his family may without license 
hunt thereon rabbits at any time, and squirrels 
during the open season therefor. 

(3) Except as provided in subsection (2), no 
person shall have in his possession or under his 
control, or use, for hunting rabbits, any ferret, 
snare, trap, or any device or contrivance de- 
signed or used for the purpose of driving rab- 
bits ojit of their holes or dens. The owner or 
occupant or any person upon written request of 
the owner or occupant of any land in the county 
of Dqor may use a ferret thereon for hunting 
rabbits. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

29.25 Game Birds; Hunting. (1) Prohib- 
ited methods. No person shall hunt any game 
bird between sunset and thirty minutes before 
sunrise of the following morning; or by shoot- 
ing it or at it from any boat, canoe, raft, blind, 
contrivance or device in open water, or from 
any boat or craft other than such as are pro- 
pelled by paddle, oars, or pole or with the use 
of more than fifty decoys within, or any decoys 
beyond, two hundred feet from the blind or 
covering in which the hunter is located, or with 
any decoys left in the water unattended; or 
any game bird other than wild geese and brant 
with the use of a rifle. 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 37 

(2) Open water defined. t)pen water is any 
water outside or beyond a natural growth of 
vegetation extending over the water surface, 
and of such height as to offer partial or whole 
concealment for the hunter. 

(3) Live decoys. The set of fifty decoys al- 
lowed for each hunter used on the water in 
hunting game birds may include not more than 
five live decoys; but each such live decoy so 
used shall be provided with a registration tag, 
which shall be issued by the state conservation 
commission to any holder of a hunting license 
on payment of a fee of ten cents for each tag. 

(4) Use of dogs. No person carrying or be- 
ing in possession of a gun shall run or use a 
dog or dogs in the field, or upon lands fre- 
quented by game birds or upon which game 
birds may be found, between the first day of 
August and the seventh day of September in 
each year. Penalty $50.00 to $100.00.) 

29.26 Prohibited Fishing Under Particular 
Conditions. No person shall take, capture, or 
kill fish of any variety, or fish for fish during 
the close season for trout, in streams and creeks 
containing trout; or at any time in or from 
any spring hole or artificial well connected with 
any of the waters of this state; or by means of 
shutting or drawing off water for that purpose; 
nor shall any person take, capture or kill fish 
within two hundred feet of any fishway, lock 
or dam otherwise than with a hook and line. 
No fish of any variety shall be taken in any 
manner within five hundred feet below any 
fishway, lock or dam in the counties of Burnett, 
Washburn, Sawyer, Oneida, Florence, Vilas, 



38 State Conservation Commission. 

Iron, Ashland, Bayfield, Douglas, and north of 
townships number 35 in Price and Forest coun- 
ties, and within three hundred feet above and 
five hundred feet below the dam at Kilbourn on 
the Wisconsin river. No person shall take or 
catch fish from a boat or float in Flites pond on 
the Big Rush O'Cree creek in the town of Plain- 
field, Waushara county. (Penalty ($50.00- 
$100.00.) 

29.27 Prohibited Methods of Fishing. (1) 
Hook and line fishing; spearing. No person 
shall take, catch, kill, or fish for fish of any va- 
riety with more than five lines with one hook to 
a line or with more than three lines with two 
hooks* to a line or with any line equipped with 
more than two hooks or one trolling spoon or 
artificial bait, or with any fish line or lines and 
hooks left in the water unattended, unless a 
license for a set line shall be procured therefor; 
or any game fish by any means other than 
angling or trolling, except as provided in sub- 
section (2) of section 29.28 and section 29.30; 
nor shall any person use a spear for the pur- 
pose of taking, catching or killing any rough 
fish at any time in nonnavigable waters contain- 
ing trout, or during the close season for trout 
in navigable waters containing trout, or at any 
time in Lake Mason, commonly known as 
Briggsville pond, or the inlet, outlet or marshes 
adjacent to the same, or in Pine lake, in the 
town of Hancock, and Fsh lake, in the towns 
of Hancock and Deerfield, Waushara county, or 
in the Chain of Lakes, Mirror or Shadow lakes, 
in the towns of Farmington, Dayton, Waupaca, 
and the city of Waupaca, Waupaca county, or 
in Devil's lake, Sauk county, or in the waters 



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known as Koenig's millpond, situated in sec- 
tions seven, eight, seventeen and eighteen of 
township nine north, of range six east, town of 
Prairie du Sac, or in the nighttime in any other 
inland waters. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

(2) Snag lines. No person shall set, place, 
use, have, or control any snag line or snag pole, 
meaning any line, cable, or pole to which a 
number of fishhooks or clusters of fishhooks of 
any kind or description are attached, and desig- 
nated to be placed in or drawn through the water 
for the purpose of catching or drawing such 
hooks into the body of fish. Violations of this 
subsection shall be punished by a fine of not 
less than one hundred nor more than two hun- 
dred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county- 
jail not less than six months nor more than 
nine months, or by both such fine and imprison- 
ment. 

(29.28) Ice Fishing. (1) No person shall 
take, catch, or kill fish of any variety through 
the ice on Pardeeville millpond in the town of 
Wyocena, Columbia county; Pine lake, town of 
Hancock, and Fish lake, towns of Hancock and 
Deerfield; Pleasant lake in the town of Co- 
loma, Waushara county, and in the town of 
Springfield, Marquette county; Lake Nocque- 
bay in Marinette county; Lake Mason, common- 
ly known as Briggsville pond, in the counties of 
Adams and Marquette; Shell lake in Wash- 
burn county; Silver lake in the town of West 
Bend, Washington county; Chain of Lakes in 
townships thirty-seven and thirty-eight north, 
of range twelve west, in Washburn county; 
Devil's lake and Mears lake, and tributary 
streams; the waters known as Koenig's mill- 



40 State Conservation Commission. 

pond in sections seven, eight, seventeen and 
eighteen of township nine north, of range six 
east, town of Prairie du Sac, and Mirror lake 
in Sauk county; Pickerel and Rolling Stone 
Lakes in Forest county; Twin lakes, in the 
town of Lincoln, and Pike lake in Polk county; 
any lake in the county of Langlade, except in 
Post lake, any lakes in the counties of Por- 
tage and Marquette, except in Buffalo lake. 
The bag limit for Cisco in any lake in Wau- 
kesha county shall be twenty-five each day. 
No person shall set, use or operate any fyke 
net or drop net in any waters within two miles 
from the shore line of Door county, excepting 
in that portion south of Limekiln Bluff. There 
shall be a close season for large and small- 
mouthed black bass from March 1 to June 15 
in Sturgeon bay and Sawyer's harbor in Door 
county. The provisions of subsection (3) of 
section' 29.14 shall not apply to Door county. 
(Penalty $50.00-?100.00.) 

(2) Spears may be used for spearing pickerel 
through the ice of the Mississippi river, Lake 
Pepin, Lake St. Croix, and the lakes, bays, 
bayous and sloughs tributary thereto and con- 
nected therewith. 

(3) Fish shanties or shelters may be used 
on the ice of the Mississippi river, Lake Geneva 
in Walworth county, Lakes Winnebago, Winne- 
conne, Big and Little Butte des Morts and Poy- 
gan; Beaver Dam lake; the Fox river in Brown 
county; the Oconto river within the limits of 
the city of Oconto; all lakes in Waukesha coun- 
ty, except Phantom and Howitt's lakes; and 
where there is not less than fifty feet of water 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 41 

in Big Green lake. Wind shields may be used 
on the ice of Mendota, Monona, Waubesa and 
Kegonsa lakes in Dane county. 

29.29 Noxious Substances. (1) Explosives ; 
stupe} actives. No person shall take, capture or 
kill fish of any variety in any waters of this 
state by means of dynamite or other explosives 
or poisonous or stupefying substances; or place 
in any waters of this state explosives which 
might cause the destruction of fish, except for 
the purpose of raising dead bodies whenever 
ordered by the public authorities, or for the 
purpose of clearing a channel or breaking a 
log jam; or have in his possession or under his 
control, upon any inland waters, any dynamite 
or other explosives for the purpose of taking, 
catching or killing fish. Violations of this sub- 
section shall be punished by a fine of not less 
than two hundred nor more than five hundred 
dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail 
not less than nine months nor more than one 
year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 

(2) Medicated "bait. No person shall use, set, 
lay or prepare in any of the waters of this state 
any lime, poison, medicated bait, fish berries, or 
any other substance deleterious to fish life or 
which might attract fish in unusual numbers; 
but the feeding of Cisco with oatmeal for the 
purpose of catching such fish with hook and 
line through the ice is lawful. 

(3) Deleterious substances. No person shall 
cast, deposit, or throw overboard from any 
boat, vessel or other craft into any waters 
within the jurisdiction of the state, or deposit 
or leave upon the ice thereof until it melts, any 



42 State Conservation Commission. 

fish offal; or throw or deposit, or permit to be 
thrown or deposited, into any waters within 
the jurisdiction of the state any lime, tanbark, 
ship ballast, stone, sand slabs, decayed wood, 
sawdust, saw-mill refuse, planing mill shavings, 
or any acids or chemicals or waste or refuse 
arising from the manufacture of any article of 
commerce, or any other substance deleterious to 
fish life other than authorized drainage and 
sewage from municipalities. (Penalty $50.00- 
1100.00.) 



FISHING WITH NETS AND SET LINES 

29.30 Fishing with Nets arid Set Lines. (1) 

License required. Nets and set lines may be 
used for the purpose of taking, catching, or kill- 
ing rough fish and game fish, subject to the 
conditions, limitations and restrictions pre- 
scribed in this chapter; but no person shall set, 
place or use in any waters of this state any net, 
trap, snare, set hook, or set line, which is in- 
tended to or might take, catch or kill fish of 
any variety, other than a landing net, dip net, 
minnow seine or minnow dip net, unless a li- 
cense therefor has been duly issued to such 
person. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00. Penalty use 
of gill nets $200.00-$500.0Q. Penalty use of any 
net for trout $200.00-$500.00.) 

(2) Restrictions on the use of licensed nets 
and set lines. The use of licensed nets and set 
lines is subject, further, to the following condi- 
tions: 

(a) No apron or other device shall be used 
In any pound net, which might prevent the 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 43 

escape of small fish through the meshes of the 
net when it is set or raised. 

(b) No net of any kind shall be set so as to 
shut off more than one-half of any channel or 
passageway of any stream, or set within one 
thousand feet of any other net in said stream. 

(c) No licensee shall join his net to that of 
any other licensee. 

(d) At each end of every licensed net or set 
line, when set in any waters, shall be placed 
and maintained a white flag of not less than 
sixteen inches square, with the upper end of 
the staff extending at least two feet above the 
water, and numbered with figures at least three 
inches in height corresponding with the number 
of the license authorizing the use of such net 
or set line. 

(e) The licensees df licensed net or set lines 
used in outlying waters shall, on their boats, 
carry the state conservation commission, or its 
deputies, to and from their nets or set lines 
when set and, on demand of such officer, shall 
raise the same for his inspection; and any such 
officer is authorized, in the presence or ab- 
sence of the licensee, at any time, to raise any 
set line in any waters, with as little damage 
as may be, for inspection. If any such licensee 
shall refuse to carry any such officer as herein 
provided his license shall be revoked and can- 
celled. 

(f) No licensed net shall be drawn or lifted 
at any time between one hour after sunset and 
sunrise of the following morning, in any waters 
other than Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Green 
Bay, the Fox river beyond a distance of 500 



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feet below the dam at De Pere, and Sturgeon 
Bay. 

(g) No fish of any kind shall be taken or re- 
tained in any net, when drawn or lifted, other 
than the kind or kinds expressly authorized to 
be taken or retained in such net, as provided 
in this chapter; and except as provided in para- 
graph (h) any such other kind or kinds of fish 
coming into or taken in such nets shall be 
immediately returned, carefully and with as 
little injury as possible, to the waters from 
which they were taken. 

(h) All rough fish taken in net in inland wa- 
ters shall be brought to shore and buried, sold, 
or otherwise lawfully disposed of; but none of 
such fish shall be returned to any waters of this 
state. 

(i) Whenever the size of mesh of any net is 
specified in this chapter it shall be the size of 
such x mesh, stretch measure, at the time of its 
use. (Penalty $50.Q0-$100.00.) 

29.31 Dip Nets in Inland Waters. (1) No 

person shall set, use or operate any dip net in 
any of the inland waters of the state for taking, 
catching or killing of any variety of fish other 
than as specified in this section. 

(2) Dip nets not exceeding eight feet in di- 
ameter with meshes of not less than three 
inches may be used for taking, catching or kill- 
ing rough fish in the Fond du Lac river within 
three miles of its mouth; in Silver creek in 
the town of Ripon, Fond du Lac county,' from 
the old Arcade dam to the Green Lake county 
line; in the Big Wolf river; in Butternut Lake, 
Ashland and Price counties; in the Manitowoc 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 45 

river from its mouth up to Ripp's bridge in 
the town of Rockland, Manitowoc county; in 
the Milwaukee river from its mouth to a point 
twenty miles inland, and in that part of the 
Rock river lying in Jefferson and Dodge coun- 
ties; the Crawfish river from its mouth up to 
bridge number four in the town of Beaver Dam, 
Dodge county, and in all the streams and rivers 
flowing into Lake Michigan and Green bay in 
that part of such streams beginning at the 
mouth and extending ten miles inland. Fyke 
nets may be used in Lake Koshkonong under 
Section 29.62 between the fifteenth day of No- 
vember and the following first day of October. 
(Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

29.32 Minnow Nets. (1) Use limited. No 
person shall set, use or operate any minnow 
seine or minnow dip net in any of the waters 
of this state for taking, catching or killing fish 
of any variety, other than as specified in this 
section. 

(2) Inland waters. Minnow seines not ex- 
ceeding forty feet in length and five feet in 
depth, and minnow dip nets not exceeding six 
fe'et in diameter may be used in all inland wa- 
ters for taking, catching or killing rough fish, 
minnows for bait only; but not in any such wa- 
ters, creeks, or streams inhabited by trout or 
in which trout may have been planted, or in 
Turtle creek in Walworth and Rock counties, 
unless supervised by the state conservation 
commission or its deputies. 

(3) Outlying waters. Minnow seines not ex- 
ceeding one hundred feet in length and five feet 
in depth and minnow dip nets not exceeding six 



46 State Conservation Commission. 

feet in diameter may be used in Lake Superior, 
Lake Michigan, Green Bay, Sturgeen Bay, and 
the Fox river below the dam at De Pere, for 
taking, catching, or killing rough fish minnows 
for bait only. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

29.33 Net and Set Hook Fishing in Outlying 
Waters. (1) License authorized. Net or set 
hook licenses which shall authorize the use of 
one or more of the kinds of nets or lines of 
set hooks named in this section, as limited here- 
in, for the taking, catching, or killing of fish 
in the waters of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, 
Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, and the Fox river 
below the dam at De Pere, shall be issued, sub- 
ject to the provisions of section 29.09, by the 
state conservation commission to any person 
duly applying therefor. 

(2) Form of license. In addition to the facts 
required by section 29.09, each application for 
such license, and the license issued thereon, 
shall state the name and kind of vessel and 
whether with or without a steam lifter, and 
the number and kind of nets or set hooks to be 
covered by the license applied for. 

(3) License period and fees. Each such li- 
cense shall be effective only from the first day 
of January until the thirty-first day of Decem- 
ber of the same year; and the fee for each li- 
cense issued to any resident of this state is 
two dollars for a gill net or nets ; five dollars 
for each seine; two dollars for each pound net 
and leader; five dollars for trap net or nets, 
fyke net or nets, drop net or nets, with lead- 
ers; and one dollar for each trammel net, or 
for set hooks. The fee for each license issued 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 47 

to any nonresident is the same as the resident 
fee, except for gill nets operated in conjunction 
with or from any vessel; and for gill nets so 
operated, two dollars for any vessel propelled 
by oars, paddle, or pole, fifty dollars for any 
other vessel propelled otherwise than by steam, 
one hundred dollars for any steam vessel with- 
out a steam lifter, and two hundred dollars for 
any steam vessel with a steam lifter. 

(4) Metal tags. No such licensed net or set 
hooks shall be used until the same are equipped 
with metal tags stamped to designate the kind 
of net or set hooks and number of the license 
covering the same. One such tag shall be se- 
curely fastened to each two thousand lineal 
feet, or fraction thereof, of gill net or set 
hooks; one to each pound net; one to each five 
hundred lineal feet, or fraction thereof, of 
seine; and one to each fyke, drop, trap, sub- 
marine or trammel net. Such tags shall be fur- 
nished by the state conservation commission to 
the licensee at the time of issuing the license, 
on payment of a fee of twenty-five cents for 
each tag, except that tags for gill nets shall be 
fifty cents. 

(5) The following waters are reserve waters, 
and no nets of any kind shall be set therein, 
namely: In Allouez Bay, Superior Bay, St. 
Louis Bay; St. Louis river connected with Lake 
Superior; in Lake Superior within one-fourth 
mile from the entry of the channel between 
Wisconsin Point and Minnesota Point, or from 
any harbor, pier or breakwater, or from the 
mouthy of any stream flowing into Lake Su- 
perior, or from the shore line of Douglas coun- 



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ty, or within two miles from the shore line of 
Chequamegon Bay from the commercial dock 
in the city of Washburn, Bayfield county, to 
the state line of Michigan. In Lake Michigan 
within one-fourth mile of any harbor, pier or 
breakwater, or from the mouth of any stream 
flowing into Lake Michigan or Green Bay, or 
within one mile from any harbor, pier or 
breakwater in Milwaukee county, or within one 
mile from the shore line of Milwaukee county. 
In the waters of Lake Michigan or Green Bay 
no gill net shall be set within one-fourth mile 
from the shore line of Door county, except 
south of Limekiln Bluff in said county, and no 
net of any kind shall be used in the following 
bays or harbors in Door county, namely: Stur- 
geon Bay, Little Sturgeon Bay, Riley's Bay, 
Egg Harbor, Fish Creek Harbor, Eagle Harbor, 
Baileys Harbor, Mud Bay, North Bay, Rowleys 
Bay, and Washington Harbor, Jackson Harbor 
and Detroit Harbor in Washington Island. 

(6) Close seasons. For the purpose of this 
subsection the waters of Green Bay shall be 
considered to include all that area south of a 
line drawn between Limekiln Bluff in Door 
county and the mouth of the Menominee river 
in Marinette county, and including the Fox 
river as far as the dam at De Pere, and all the 
waters of Green Bay north of the above de- 
scribed line shall be subject to the law covering 
Lake Michigan. 

(a) In Green Bay there shall be a close 
season on lake trout and whitefish from Oc- 
tober 21 to November 21. A close season for 
pike and pickerel from March 10 to May 1. A 



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close season for all varieties of fish, except lake 
trout, whitefish, carp and herring - from the fif- 
teenth day of April to the twentieth day of May, 
inclusive. 

(b) In Lake Michigan there shall be a close 
season on lake trout and whitefish from Octo- 
ber 21 to November 21. 

(c) In Lake Superior there shall be a close 
season for lake trout and whitefish from Octo- 
ber 1 to November 1. 

(7) Prohibited nets. Minnow nets. For the 
purpose of this subsection the waters of Green 
Bay shall be considered to include all that area 
south of a line drawn between Limekiln Bluff 
in Door county and the mouth of the Menominee 
river in Marinette county and including the Fox 
river as far as the dam at De Pere. All the wa- 
ters of Green Bay north of the above described 
line shall be subject to the law covering Lake 
Michigan. 

(a) In Green Bay nets with a mesh not 
less than four inches may be used for the tak- 
ing of lake trout and whitefish. Gill nets with 
a mesh not less than two and three-eighths 
inches may be used for taking herring, chub, 
bluefin, or perch. Seines with a mesh of not 
less than three inches, and pound nets with a 
mesh of not more than two inches in the pound 
may be used. No nets of any kind shall be set 
for the purpose of catching any variety of fish 
during the close season for such fish. During 
the period from January 1 to March 10 gill nets 
with a mesh of two and one-eighth inches may 
be used under the ice for the purpose of catch- 



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ing herring. No perch shall be caught or taken 
from the waters of Green Bay proper or Lake 
Michigan between April 15 and May 20 in each 
year. 

(b) In Lake Superior gill nets with a mesh 
of not less than four inches may be used for the 
purpose of taking lake trout and whitefish. Gill 
nets with a mesh of not less than two and three- 
eighths inches may be used during the months 
of November and December for the purpose of 
taking herring. . Seines with a mesh of not less 
than three inches and pound nets with a mesh 
of not more than two inches in the pound may 
be used. No nets of any kind shall be set or 
used for the purpose of taking any variety of 
fish during the close season for such fish. 

(c) In Lake Michigan gill nets with a mesh 
of not less than four inches may be used for the 
purpose of taking lake trout and whitefish. Gill 
nets with a mesh of not less than two and one- 
half inches may be used for the purpose of tak- 
ing herring, chub, bluefin and perch. Seines 
with a mesh of not less than three inches and 
pound nets with a mesh of not more than two 
inches in the pound may be used. No nets of 
any kind shall be set for the purpose of taking 
any variety of fish during the close season for 
such fish. 

(d) In Green Bay and Lake Michigan min- 
now seines fifty feet long and five feet deep may 
be used for taking rough fish minnows for bait. 
Each set-hook licensee may use not more than 
two thousand feet of gill net with a mesh of one 
and three-eighths inches, except in reserve wa- 
ters for the purpose of taking bloaters for bait. 



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The provisions of subdivision (d) of subsection 
(7) of section 29.33, shall not take effect until 
January 1, 1918. 

(e) All nets with a mesh other than such as 
above specified and all nets used in violation of 
this chapter are contraband nets and shall be 
seized and confiscated whenever found in the 
water on any vessel, dock or reel. Any such 
contraband nets so found shall be deemed suffi- 
cient evidence of the use of such nets by the 
owner thereof. 

(8) Fish returned to waters. All black bass, 
muskellunge, sturgeon, rainbow trout, brook 
trout, salmon or steelhead trout, and all under- 
sized lake trout and whitefish taken in any 
pound, fyke or trap net shall be immediately re- 
turned alive and without avoidable injury to the 
waters from which taken. 

(9) No licensee of any net or set hooks shall 
transport or cause to be transported, fish of 
any of the varieties mentioned in this subsec- 
tion of a length less than that specified for 
each variety; and such measurement of length 
shall be taken in a straight line from the tip 
of the nose to the utmost end of the tail fin, 
except that the measurement of dressed fish 
be of the length of the carcass, namely: 

Lake trout 12 inches 

White fish 13 inches 

Suckers 12 inches 

Buffalo 18 inches 

Suckers with head and tail off 9 inches 

Perch 7 inches 

Perch with head and tail off 4 inches 

Pike 13 inches 



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Pike with head and tail off 10 inchei 

Pickerel 16 inches 

Pickerel with head and tail off 11 inches 

Catfish 20 inches 

Catfish with head off 17 inches 

Any other variety , 8 inches 

All carp caught in any net by any commercial 
fisherman shall in no case be returned to the 
water. 

(11) Any violation of subsections (1), (5), 
(6), (7), (8), (9), and (10) of section 29.33 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than one 
hundred fifty dollars nor more than five hun- 
dred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county 
jail for not less than six months nor more than 
nine months, or by both such fine and imprison- 
ment. 

(12) Reports. On or before January 10 fol- 
lowing the expiration of his license, each such 
licensee shall report to the state conservation 
commission in writing, on blanks furnished by 
the said commission, the number of his license, 
the kind, number and size of nets, the length of 
lines of set hooks used, number of lineal feet of 
gill nets, the number of pounds and value of 
each variety of fish caught; and such other in- 
formation as may be required on the blanks fur- 
nished. Such report shall be subscribed to be- 
fore a notary public or a justice of the peace. 

29.34 Net Licenses; Mississippi River Wa- 
ters. (1) License authorized. Net licenses 
which shall authorize the use of nets, as limited 
herein, during the period of time extending from 
the fifteenth day of June to the next succeeding 
fifteenth day of April, except that buffalo nets 



, 



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having meshes not smaller than four and one- 
half inches, stretch measure, to be used for tak- 
ing rough fish only, may be used in the running 
waters of the Mississippi river at all times of 
the year, for taking, catching, or killing fish in 
the waters of the Mississippi river, Lake Pepin, 
and Lake St. Croix, and the lakes, bays, bayous, 
and sloughs tributary thereto and connected 
therewith, shall be issued subject to the provi- 
sions of section 29.09 by the state conservation 
commission to any resident of the state duly 
applying therefor. 

(2) Bond. Before any such license is issued, 
the applicant shall execute and deliver to the 
state conservation commission a bond running 
to the state of Wisconsin, in the sum of two 
hundred dollars, with two sureties, and condi- 
tioned that if the applicant shall well and faith- 
fully observe and comply with all the provisions 
of this chapter, said obligation to be null and 
void, otherwise to remain in full force. Each 
said surety shall be worth and qualify in at least 
the sum of two hundred dollars, over and above 
all his debts and liabilities, in property within 
this state not exempt from sale on execution. 

(3) License period; nets specified. Each such 
license shall expire on the fifteenth day of April 
next succeeding the date of its issue, and shall 
authorize the use of one or more of the follow- 
ing nets only: Seines not exceeding a total 
length of four thousand feet, and having meshes 
of not less than five inches on the wings or four 
inches in the center of the pot, the pot not ex- 
ceeding one hundred and fifty feet in length; 
gill nets having meshes of not less than seven 
inches; pound or hoop nets having meshes of 



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not less than six inches in the leaders, five 
inches in the hearts, or three inches in the 
hoops; and bait nets to be used without leads, 
having meshes of not less than three inches, and 
not more than a four-foot front. 

(4) License fees. The fee for each such li- 
cense is as follows: For seines, one dollar per 
hundred for the first five hundred lineal- feet, 
two dollars per hundred for the second five hun- 
dred lineal feet, three dollars per hundred for 
the third five hundred lineal feet, four dollars 
per hundred for the fourth five hundred lineal 
feet, five dollars per hundred for the fifth five 
hundred lineal feet, and six dollars for each one 
hundred lineal feet over twenty-five hundred; 
for gill nets, five dollars for the first two thou- 
sand lineal feet, and five dollars for each addi- 
tional one thousand lineal feet; for pound or 
hoop nets, five dollars for each seven hundred 
lineal feet of leader and one pound, and five dol- 
lars for each additional pound; for bait nets, one 
dollar each; for buffalo nets, five dollars each. 

(5) Metal tags. No such licensed net shall 
be used until the same is equipped with metal 
tags stamped to designate the kind of net and 
number of license covering the same. One 
such tag shall be securely fastened to each five 
hundred lineal feet, or fraction thereof, of seine; 
one to each two thousand lineal feet, or fraction 
thereof, of gill net; and one to each fyke, hoop, 
or bait net. Such tags shall be furnished by 
the state conservation commission to the li- 
censee at the time of issuing the license, on pay- 
ment of a fee of twenty-five cents for each tag. 

(6) Protected fish. No such licensed net shall 
be used for taking, catching, or killing any of 



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the following named fish: catfish of any variety 
under fifteen inches in length in the rough, or 
twelve inches dressed with the head detached; 
pike of any variety, bass of any variety, crap- 
pies, sunfish, pickerel, rock sturgeon, or perch. 

(7) Reserve waters. No such licensed net 
shall be used for taking, catching, or killing fish 
of any kind in any of the following named wa- 
ters: Rice lake, French lake, Mud lake, Round 
lake, Long lake, French slough, Spring creek, 
Spring slough, and Black river in La Crosse 
county; Courtois pond, Pickerel, Spring, Nigger 
and Frenchtown sloughs and Gordon bay, in 
Crawford county; the De Soto bay, Long slough, 
T slough, Green lake, Pick's lake and all sloughs, 
lakes and bayous from De Soto bay to the main 
channel of the Mississippi river and as far north 
as Battle Bar in Vernon county; Cassville 
sloughs from Glen Haven to Cassville; Daley 
lake, "Wyalusing bay and Glen lake between 
"Wyalusing and the Burlington railway bridge, 
Plondke and Harris sloughs, Crawford lake, 
Ferry lake, and Bertram lake, all in Grant coun- 
ty; Trention lake, Trention slough, Mud lake 
and Mero slough in Pierce county; and the 
Mississippi river within fifteen hundred feet of 
the mouth of the Chippewa river, except that 
during the period from September 20 to Janu- 
ary 1 of each year not to exceed ten pounds, not 
to exceed four feet, fyke or hoop nets may be 
used by each licensee providing such fishing is 
done under the supervision of the conservation 
commission or one of its deputies, the licensee 
to pay for such supervision service at not to 
exceed four dollars per day. 

(8) Temporary ponds; shipments. Each such 



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licensee may construct temporary fish ponds and 
keep his fish therein until they can be marketed ; 
and a card shall be attached to each shipment 
thereof, on which shall be written "Shipped un- 
der section 29.34," the signature of the licensee, 
and the number of his license. 

(9) Reports. Each such licensee shall keep a 
strict record and account as to each variety of 
fish and the number of pounds thereof taken by 
him in such licensed nets; and shall report 
thereon to the state conservation commission on 
or before the fifteenth day of May covering his 
operations during the preceding year. (Penalty 
$50.00 to $100.00.) 

29.35 Net Licenses; Whitefish and Cisco In 
Inland lakes. (1) Net licenses which shall au- 
thorize the use of not exceeding one hundred 
lineal feet of gill net, with meshes not less than 
two and three-fourths inches, or dip nets with a 
diameter of not more than eight feet and with 
meshes not less than one and one-half inches, 
for taking, catching or killing whitefish in any 
of the inland waters of the state containing 
whitefish, or not exceeding one hundred lineal 
feet of gill net, with meshes not less than two 
inches, for the purpose of catching ciscos in any 
of the inland waters of the state containing 
cisco may be issued by the state conservation 
commission, subject to the provisions of section 
29.09, to any resident of the state duly applying 
therefor. Such licenses may also be issued by 
the commission in its discretion, for the catch- 
ing of whitefish or ciscos, respectively, in any 
other inland waters. The fee for each such li- 
cense is one dollar. 



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(2) Each such license shall be limited to such 
period of ten days as shall be fixed by the state 
conservation commission, and no such whitefish 
licensee shall have in his possession or under 
his control at any time more than one hundred 
pounds of whitefish. 

(3) No such licensed net shall be used until 
the same is equipped with a metal tag, stamped 
to designate the kind of net and number of the 
license covering the same, to be securely fas- 
tened to each net. Such tag shall be furnished 
by the commission at the time of issuing the 
license. Spears may be used in the waters of 
Vilas county during the period from October 15 
to November 15 for the purpose of spearing 
Cisco. 

(4) Within five days of the close of the period 
of ten days for the use of such gill nets the 
owner of the same shall dry said net, roll it into 
a bundle, leave the tag attached, attach his li- 
cense thereto and deliver or ship the same to 
the nearest conservation warden. The warden 
shall give a receipt for the net, shall be responsi- 
ble for its safe-keeping, and shall deliver or ship 
the same back to the owner not more than five 
days before the opening of the next season for 
the use of said net; providing the owner has 
purchased a new license and tag. (Penalty 
$50.00 to $100.00.) 

(29.36 repealed by Chapter 352, Laws of 1921.) 
29.37 Set Line Licenses; Inland Waters. (1) 
Set line licenses which shall authorize the use 
of one set line only, with not exceeding twenty- 
five hooks, for taking, catching or killing fish, 
shall be issued, subject to the provisions of sec- 
tion 29.09, by the county clerk of the county bor- 



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dering on the waters where such set lines are 
intended and permitted to be used, to any person 
duly applying therefor. 

(2) Each such license shall be limited to the 
period of time extending from the twenty-ninth 
day of May to the next succeeding fifteenth day 
of February. The fee for each such license is 
one dollar. 

(3) No such licensed set line shall be used 
until the same is equipped with a metal tag, 
stamped to designate the number of the license 
covering the same, which shall be securely fas- 
tened to one end of the set line. Such tag shall 
be furnished by the state conservation commis- 
sion to the county clerk, and by the latter to the 
licensee at the time of issuing the license, on 
payment of a fee of twenty-five cents. All fees 
received by the county clerks for such metal 
tags shall be returned and reported in the same 
manner as are license fees, as prescribed in sec- 
tion 29.09, but without deduction. 

(4) Such licensed set lines may be used only 
in the following waters: Big Wolf river in Wau- 
paca and Outagamie counties; Lake Winnebago, 
Lake Butte des Morts, Little Butte des Morts, 
Lake Winneconne, Lake Poygan, Lake Pucka- 
way, and the river connecting said lakes, Fox 
river, except below the dam at De Pere; Wiscon- 
sin river from the north line of Sauk county to 
its mouth; Black river from the north line of 
Jackson county to its mouth; the Chippewa 
river from its mouth to the dam at Jim Falls, 
Chippewa county; Menomonee river bordering 
on Marinette county; the Pecatonica river in 
Green county; the Pecatonica river and the east 
and west branches of the Pecatonica river in 



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LaFayette county; and the Mississippi river, 
Lake Pepin and Lake St. Croix. 

(5) In the Big Wolf river in Waupaca and 
Winnebago counties ; in the Fox river in Winne- 
bago county and in Outagamie county as far as 
the dam at De Pere; in Lake Winnebago, Lake 
'Winneconne, Lake Butte des Morts, Little Butte 
Ides Morts, Lake Poygan, three hundred hooks 
i may be used but in such waters no frog, minnow 
or live bait shall be used. No licensed set line 
shall be equipped with any hooks smaller than 
5/0. (Penalty $50.00 to $100.00.) 

(6) In the Mississippi river, Lake Pepin and 
Lake St. Croix, and Lake Winnebago not to ex- 
ceed twenty lines with not to exceed one hun- 
Idred hooks on each line may be used by each li- 
censee, but no frog, minnow or live bait shall be 
lused. Each such line shall be equipped with a 
i metal tag issued in the same manner and at the 
same fee as provided in subsection (3). The li- 
cense fee for each such line shall be one dollar. 
(Penalty $50.00 to $100.00.) 

CLAMMING 
29.38 Clams and mussels. (1) Mussels, not 
(less than one and three-fourths inches in great- 
est dimensions, including the pearly fresh water 
[mussel or clam, or Naiad and the shells thereof, 
tmay be taken and possessed in any quantity at 
any time, in the manner hereinafter described, 
tin any of the waters of this state except those 
[duly closed by the conservation commission, 
provided a license so to do shall first be obtained 
ifrom the conservation commission. Such mus- 
sels may be bought, sold or transported at any 
time. 



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(2) The conservation commission may, when 
in its judgment the conservation of the mussel 
resources of the state requires it, prescribe areas 
from which mussels may not be taken for a 
specified period or not to exceed five years, such 
closed areas not to exceed over one-half the mus- 
sel producing waters of the state at the same 
time. All orders of the conservation commis- 
sion prescribing such closed areas shall be pub- 
lished once in a newspaper qualified to publish 
legal notices within each county having waters 
within its boundaries affected by such orders, 
and shall take effect at the time fixed therein, 
but not earlier than thirty days after publica- 
tion. The conservation commission may, when 
in its judgment conditions warrant it, vacate, 
modify or extend any such order. No mussels 
shall be taken from waters included in any area 
so closed by the conservation commission. 

(3) Such license shall be procured from the 
conservation commission and may be issued to 
a resident or nonresident. It shall be in such 
form as the commission may determine, but 
shall state what waters have been closed by the 
action of the conservation commission to the 
taking of mussels, and whether the licensee is a 
resident of this state. The applicant shall pay 
to the conservation commission as a license fee, 
if a resident, the sum of five dollars, and if not 
a resident, the sum of fifty dollars. All licenses 
shall expire on the thirty-first day of December 
following. Licensees, when taking mussels, 
shall exhibit their licenses to any conservation 
warden upon his request. 

(4) Not more than one boat or rig may be 
used for taking mussels. An additional boat for 



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towing may De used when no mussel taking ap- 
paratus is attached thereto. Not more than four 
crowfoot bars, or bars having hooks attached 
thereto adapted for the taking of mussels, shall 
be had in possession by a licensee while taking- 
mussels at any one time, and not more than two 
of such crowfoot bars shall be placed in the 
water by a licensee while taking mussels, at any 
one time. No crowfoot bar of more than twenty 
feet in length shall be used. Pitchforks may be 
used in gathering clam shells. Undersized mus- 
sels, except pigtoes, shall be returned to the wa- 
ter without injury. No person shall take, catch 
or kill any mussels in any of the waters of this 
state at any time with the use of a dredge or 
by the use of any device except a crowfoot bar. 

(5) Written reports shall be made to the 
conservation commission on blanks prepared by 
it on or before December thirty-first, by each 
person to whom a license to take mussels has 
been issued, stating the total weight of mussels 
taken under authority of such license, the names 
and locations of the waters from which such 
mussels were taken, and the total amount re- 
ceived for the mussels sold. 

(6) Persons duly authorized by the state of 
Minnesota to take mussels from waters forming 
a common boundary between Wisconsin and 
Minnesota may take mussels from that portion 
of said waters within the jurisdiction of Wiscon- 
sin and not closed by action of the conservation 
commission/" without having first procured a li- 
cense therefor from the state of Wisconsin, pro- 
vided that the laws of Minnesota extend a simi- 
lar privilege to persons licensed by Wisconsin 
to take mussels. 



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(7) There shall be a closed season for clams 
in all inland waters of the state, not including 
boundary waters, extending from March first to 
May twenty-ninth, in each year. 

(8) There shall be a close season for clams 
in any and all waters in Rock county. (Penalty 
$50.00 to $100.00.) 

(Also see Order No. 4 in back of book.) 

POSSESSION OF GAME 

29.39 Possession During Close Season, or in 
Excess of Bag Limit. No person shall have in 
his possession or under his control, or have in 
storage or retention or as common carrier for 
any one person, any game, game fish, or other 
wild animal or carcass or part thereof, during 
the close season therefor, or in excess of the bag 
limit for one day or below the minimum size 
thereof at any one time during the open season, 
whether lawfully or unlawfully taken within or 
without the state. (Penalty $50.00 to $100.00.) 

29.40 Possession of Deer; Heads and Skins. 
(1) Deer tags. Any person having lawfully 
killed a deer shall immediately attach and leave 
attached to the carcass, or part thereof, the deer 
tag corresponding to his license; and no person 
shall have in his possession or under his control, 
or have in storage or as a common carrier, any 
such carcass, or part thereof, without such tag 
attached. 

(2) Home consumption. Any person residing 
in this state having lawfully killed a deer, may 
have in his possession and consume the meat 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 63 

thereof in his own family at any time, but must 
leave the tag attached thereto. 

(3) Heads and skins. The head and skin of 
any deer lawfully killed, when severed from the 
rest @f the carcass, are not subject to the provi- 
sions of this chapter; but no person shall have 
in his possession or under his control the green 
head or green skin of a deer between the first 
day of January and the succeeding fourteenth 
day of November of each year, or at any time a 
deer head in the velvet, or a deer skin in the 
red, blue or spotted coat. (Penalty $50.00 to 
$100.00.) 

29.41 Skins of Fur-Bearing Animals. The 

skin of any fur-bearing animal lawfully killed, 
when separated from the rest of the carcass is 
not subject to the provisions of this chapter; but 
no person shall have in his possession or under 
his control the skin of any fisher, marten, mink, 
or muskrat showing that the same has been 
shot or speared, nor the green skin of any fur- 
bearing animal from the fifth day after the be- 
ginning of the close season for such animal until 
the ending thereof. (Penalty $50.00 to $100.00.) 

29.42 Possession of Game Birds. (1) With- 
out license. No person, other than the holder of 
a hunting license or scientist's certificate duly 
issued to him and in force and carried by him 
on his person, shall have in his possession or 
under his control any game bird, or animal, or 
the carcass or any part thereof. (Penalty $50.00 
to $100.00 plus $5.00 for each bird.) 

(2) Nests and eggs. No person shall take or 
needlessly destroy, or have in his possession or 



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under his control, except by virtue of a scien- 
tist's certificate, the nest or eggs of any wild 
bird for which a close season is prescribed in 
this chapter. (Penalty $50.00 to $100.00.) 

TRANSPORTATION OF GAME 

29.43 Transportation; General Provisions. 

(1) During close season. No person shall trans- 
port or cause to be transported, or deliver or re- 
ceive or offer to deliver or receive for trans- 
portation, any game or game fish or carcass or 
part thereof, during the close season therefor, 
whether lawfully or unlawfully taken within or 
without the state. Whenever any game or game 
fish or carcass or part thereof is offered to any 
person for transportation during the close sea- 
son therefor such person shall forthwith notify 
the state conservation commission or its deputy, 
stating full particulars of such offer and by 
whom made. 

(2) Trunks; valises. No person shall carry 
with him or under his control in any trunk, 
valise, or other package or enclosure, at any 
time, any game or game fish, or carcass or part 
thereof. 

(3) Transportation employes. No employe of 
any railroad, express, or other transportation 
company, and no steward, porter, or other em- 
ploye of any dining, parlor or sleeping car shall 
have in his personal possession or under his 
personal control, at any time while in such serv- 
ice, any game or game fish, or carcass or part 
thereof. 

(4) Labeling game shipments. No person shall 
transport or cause to be transported, or deliver 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 65 

or receive for transportation, any package or 
parcel containing any wild animal or carcass or 
part thereof, unless the same is labeled in plain 
letters on the address side of such package or 
parcel so as to disclose the name and address of 
of the consignor, the name and address of the 
consignee, and the number of pounds of each 
kind of fish or the number of each variety of 
other wild animals; or carcasses, or parts there- 
of, contained therein; and unless the consignor 
is the owner of such shipment and shall deliver 
to the common carrier therewith, either per- 
sonally, or by agent, a writing signed by him 
personally, stating that he is the owner of the 
shipment. (Penalty $50.00 to $100.00.) 

29.44 Interstate Transportation of Game. No 
person shall transport or cause to be transported, 
or deliver or receive or offer to deliver or receive 
for transportation, into or through this state, 
any game or game fish or carcass or part thereof 
from any other state in violation of the laws of 
such state relating to the transportation there- 
of ; nor any game or game fish or carcass or part 
thereof lawfully transported from any other 
state, nor have the same in his possession or 
under his control, during the close season or in 
excess of the limitations prescribed for such 
animal in this chapter, unless a permit therefor 
has been duly issued to such person by the state 
conservation commission ; but any person who 
has lawfully killed a deer in this state may, on 
his license only, take such deer into any adjoin- 
ing state, if the laws thereof permit, and ship 
the same from any point in that state to any 
point within this state. (Penalty $50.00 to 
$100.00.) 



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29.45 Transportation of Deer. (1) No com- 
mon carrier shall receive for transportation or 
transport or attempt to transport any deer, or 
carcass or part thereof, otherwise than as pro- 
vided in this section. 

(2) Each holder of a resident hunting license, 
settlers' hunting license, or nonresident general 
hunting license, may transport or cause to be 
transported one deer not less than one year old, 
between the fourteenth day of November and 
eleven o'clock P. M. of the twenty-fifth day of 
November of each year, but must accompany 
the same from the point of shipment to the 
point of destination. 

(3) The place of delivery of any such ship- 
ment by a resident licensee shall be within the 
state, and by a nonresident licensee may be 
either within the state or at his residence with- 
out the state. (Penalty $50.00 to $100.00.) 

29.46 Transportation of Game Birds. (1) 

No common carrier shall receive for transporta- 
tion or transport or attempt to transport any 
game bird, or carcass or part thereof, otherwise 
than as follows: Each holder of a hunting li- 
cense may carry with him openly, in his per- 
sonal possession, a mixed bag of not more than 
twenty such birds, but not more than the bag 
limit for one day of any one variety; but no 
such licensee resident within this state shall 
carry or convey any such birds beyond the 
borders of the state. (Penalty $50.00 to J $100.00 
plus $5.00 for each bird.) 

29.47 Transportation of Fish. (1) Time lim- 
itation. No person shall transport or cause to 
be transported, or deliver or receive or offer to 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 67 

deiiver or receive for transportation, any games 
fish taken from inland waters, during the period 
extending from the first day of January to the 
last day of the close season for such fish, in each 
year. 

(2) From inland waters. No person shall 
transport or cause to be transported, or deliver 
or receive or offer to deliver or receive for trans- 
portation, at any time, any game fish taken fr*m 
inland waters other than as follows: 

(a) One shipment only of not more than one 
package, and containing not more than twenty 
pounds of game fish of any variety other than 
those named in paragraphs (c) and (d) of this 
subsection, but not more than the bag limit for 
one day or containing in lieu thereof not more 
than two such fish of any weight, may be trans- 
ported by any resident to any point within the 
state, or by any nonresident licensee to any 
point without the state in each period of seven 
days. Nonresident hook and line fishing li- 
censes may be issued by the state conservation 
commission to any nonresident female over the 
age of sixteen years for the purpose of making 
shipment without the state, under the provisions 
of this section. 

(b) Any shipment containing more than 
twenty but not exceeding fifty pounds of game 
fish of any variety other than those named in 
paragraphs (c) and (d) of this subsection may 
be transported only to a point within this state, 
and must be accompanied by the owner from 
the point of shipment to the point of destination. 

(c) Thirty-five trout of any variety other than 
lake trout may be transported to any point 
within or without the state, when accompanied 



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by the owner from the point of shipment to the 
point of destination. 

(d) One shipment only, containing not more 
than twenty pounds of lake trout taken from in- 
land waters, may be transported by any person 
in each period of seven days, to any point 
within or without this state, when accompanied 
by the owner from the point of shipment to the 
point of destination. 

(3) From outlying waters. The transporta- 
tion of fish taken in outlying waters is subject 
to the following limitations: 

(a) No green fish of any variety shall be 
shipped from any port located on outlying wa- 
ters during the close season for such fish, ex- 
cept the first three days thereof. 

(b) Pike and pickerel of lawful size and law- 
fully taken from outlying waters may be trans- 
ported to points within or without the state 
without limitation as to quantity; but all such 
shipments shall be billed only from a port on 
outlying waters directly to their destination, 
and shall not be rebilled or reshipped from any 
other point within the state. 

(4) Shipments from inland points. Any ship- 
ment of game fish of any variety originating at 
any point in this state other than ports located 
on outlying waters is subject to the provisions 
of this section governing the transportation of 
game fish taken from inland waters. 

(5) Foreign shipments. Pike and pickerel in 
a frozen state, whether dressed or not dressed, 
legally taken or imported from any foreign 
country, are not subject to any of the provisions 
of this chapter except subsection (10) of section 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 69 

29.33; but the person importing, transporting, 
dealing in, or selling such fish shall keep a sepa- 
rate record of all shipments and consignments 
thereof, containing the number of pounds, the 
date received, the name of the consignor, and 
the name of the carrier transporting the same, 
which shall be at all times open to inspection 
by the state conservation commission or its 
deputies. 

(6) Injurious fish. Live carp minnows and 
dogfish minnows shall not be transported within 
the state. (Penalty $50.00 to $100.00.) 

COMMERCE IN GAME 

29.48 Sale of Game. Except as provided by 
section 29.52 no person shall sell, purchase, or 
barter, or offer to sell, purchase, or barter, or 
have in his possession or under his control for 
the purpose of sale or barter, any deer, squirrel, 
game bird, black bass, muskellunge, or trout 
other than lake trout, or the carcass or part 
thereof, at any time; nor any other game fish 
taken from inland waters during the period ex- 
tending from the first day of January to the 
next succeeding twenty-ninth day of May of 
each year; nor any other game or other wild 
animal, or carcass or part thereof, during the 
close season therefor. This section applies, 
whether such animals were lawfully or unlaw- 
fully taken within or without the state. (Pen- 
alty $50.00 to $100.00.) 

29.49 Serving of Game to Guests. (1) Pro- 
hibited. Except as provided by section 29.52 no 
innkeeper, manager or steward of any restau- 
rant, club, hotel, boarding house, saloon, logging 



70 State Conservation Commission. 

camp, or mining camp shall sell, barter, serve or 
give, or cause to be sold, bartered, served, or 
given to the guests or boarders thereof the meat 
of any deer, squirrel, game bird, or trout other 
than lake trout, or the carcass or part thereof, 
at any time; nor any other game fish taken from 
inland waters during the period extending from 
the first day of January to the next succeeding 
twenty-ninth day of May of each year; nor any 
frog or other game or other wild animal, or car- 
cass or part thereof, during the close season 
therefor, except rabbits in counties containing a 
city of the first class. This section applies, 
whether such animals were " lawfully or unlaw- 
fully taken within or without the state. 

(2) Free lunch. The giving, offering, or af- 
fording opportunity to take free lunch in any of 
the places named in the preceding subsection 
shall be held to be embraced within the prohibi- 
tions thereof. 

(3) Penalty. Violations of this section shall 
be punished by a fine of not less than two hun- 
dred nor more than five hundred dollars, or by 
imprisonment in the county jail not less than 
nine months nor more than one year, or by both 
such fine and imprisonment. 

29.50 Propagation Privileged. Nothing in 
the foregoing provisions concerning the protec- 
tion of wild animals shall affect the operation 
of state hatcheries, the removal of fish which 
have died from natural causes or the removal of 
deleterious fish by the state conservation com- 
mission or under its authority; or the propaga- 
tion or transportation, collecting and transplant- 
ing of fish or fish fry by state authority; nor the 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 71 

transportation of fish into or through this state 
or out of it by the commissioners of fisheries of 
other states or of the United States; nor the 
operation of private fish hatcheries, or the prop- 
agation of fish in private waters, or the trans- 
portation and sale of fish therefrom as herein- 
after provided; but the state conservation com- 
mission, or its agents and employes, shall not 
furnish fish or fry from state hatcheries to 
private ponds, private clubs, corporations or 
preserves, and shall not plant them in waters 
where the general public is not allowed the 
rights and privileges enjoyed by any individual. 

29.52 Private Fish Hatcheries. (1) No per- 
son shall stock any private fish hatchery with 
fish or fry obtained from any Wisconsin state 
fish hatchery, or from any waters of the state 
except when such fish have been taken in a law- 
ful manner. 

(2) The term "private fish hatchery" except 
as provided in paragraph (d) of this subsection, 
includes only private ponds with or without 
buildings, used for the purpose of propagating 
fish and located as follows: 

(a) At the headwaters of or along a stream 
for a distance of not to exceed one mile, on pri- 
vate land possessed and controlled by the owner 
or owners of such hatchery. 

(b) On private land where the supply of wa- 
ter for the hatchery is furnished by springs or 
artificial wells. 

(c) On private land where the supply of wa- 
ter for the hatchery is obtained by the use of 
flumes, pipes, or ditches from flowing streams, 
provided that said flumes, pipes, or ditches, 



72 State Conservation Commission. 

shall be properly screened so as to prevent fish 
from passing from such streams to the ponds 
of such hatchery. 

(d) As to private fish hatcheries hereafter 
established, the term "private fish hatchery" 
shall include only private ponds, with or with- 
out buildings, used for the purpose of propa- 
gating fish and located on artificial ponds or 
artificial lakes. 

(3) The owner or lessee of any private hatch- 
ery shall report to the state conservation com- 
mission the name, if any, and location of such 
hatchery, whereupon the commission shall in- 
spect, and in its discretion number and register 
such hatchery and immediately inform the own* 
er or lessee of the number given such hatchery; 
such owner or lessee shall, however, pay a regis- 
tration fee of five dollars, and all expenses of 
inspection except the salary of the employe who 
inspects the hatchery. 

(4) Each package or box containing fish 
propagated and raised in any private hatchery 
and shipped or offered for shipment shall be 
branded with an iron brand as follows: "Shipped 
from the private fish hatchery of (insert name 
of owner or lessee, location, and number of 
hatchery)" and such brands shall not be used 
on packages containing fish not taken from 
such private hatchery. 

(5) Any person who shall, without permis- 
sion of the owner, trespass or fish on the waters 
of a private hatchery or fish pond properly reg- 
istered with the state conservation commission, 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than fif- 
teen dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars 



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and in default of payment thereof shall be im- 
prisoned in the county jail for not less than ten 
days nor more than twenty days provided, that 
the owner of such private fish hatchery or fish 
pond gives notice by maintaining signboards, at 
least one foot square, in at least two conspicuous 
places to every forty acres. Prosecutions under 
this subsection shall be by the owner of such 
private hatchery or pond. 

29.53 Private fish ponds. (1) The owner or 
lessee of all of the lands underlying, surround- 
ing, or bordering upon any pond, lake or slough, 
natural or artificial, navigable or non-navigable, 
meandered or not meandered, tributary to and 
connected with the Mississippi river, which 
pond, lake or slough does not exceed at low wa- 
ter one square mile in surface area, shall have 
the right, upon complying with the provisions 
of this section, to erect, establish, operate and 
maintain on, in or about such pond, lake, or 
slough, a private hatchery and fishery for the 
purpose of hatching, propagating and fishing 
therein rough fish, including buffalo fish and 
carp. 

(2) Such owner or lessee desiring to erect, 
establish, operate and maintain a private hatch- 
ery and fishery in conformity with this section, 
shall file with the state conservation commission 
'(& verified declaration designating and describ- 
ing the pond, lake or slough, which the de- 
clarant desires to use for the purpose of hatch- 
ing, propagating and fishing rough fish therein, 
a description of all the lands underlying, sur- 
rounding, or bordering upon such water and the 
title or leasehold of the declarant therein. Such 



74 State Conservation Commission. 

declaration shall also state in square miles and 
fraction of square miles the area of such pond, 
lake or slough, at low water. 

(3) Upon the filing of such declaration, the 
state conservation commission shall forthwith 
examine and investigate the same and may re- 
quire the declarant to produce satisfactory evi- 
dence of the facts therein stated. If upon such 
examination it shall appear that the pond, lake 
or slough designated in the declaration does not 
exceed at low water one square mile in surface 
area and that the declarant is the owner or les- 
see of all of the lands underlying, surrounding, 
or bordering upon such water, and that the 
declarant intends in good faith to erect, estab- 
lish, operate, and maintain a hatchery and fish- 
ery on, in and about such water for the propa- 
gation or fishing of rough fish therein, the com- 
mission shall issue to the declarant a certificate 
under seal of the commission, which shall desig- 
nate such pond, lake or slough, and certify that 
the declarant is lawfully entitled to use the same 
for the hatching, propagation and fishing of 
rough fish therein and to erect, establish, oper- 
ate and maintain a private hatchery and fishery 
for the purpose of hatching, propagating and 
fishing therein of rough fish, including buffalo 
fish and carp. 

(<0 Such certificate of the commission shall 
be prima facie evidence in all courts and pro- 
ceedings of the lawful right of the declarant 
therein named, his or its successors or assigns 
for the full term of twenty-five years from the 
date of issuance thereof, to erect, establish, op- 
erate and maintain a private hatchery and fish- 



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ery in the pond, lake or slough therein desig- 
nated and shall, unless and until sooner re- 
voked as hereinafter provided, entitle the dec- 
larant therein named, his or its successors or 
assigns, to the exclusive right for and during 
said term to propagate and fish rough fish 
therein and to exclusive and sole ownership of 
and property in all rough fish caught or taken 
therefrom. 

(5) If it shall be reasonably necessary to the 
successful operation of such hatchery and fish- 
ery that screens or other structures shall be 
erected and maintained in any brook, creek or 
stream flowing into or out of such pond, lake or 
slough, in order to prevent the escape from any 
such hatchery or fishery of rough fish, author- 
ity is hereby granted to erect, and maintain the 
same in such brook, creek or stream and upon 
the tend owned or leased by the holder of such 
certificate, provided that the character and loca- 
tion of such screens or other structures for such 
purpose shall be determined by the commission 
in said certificate and, provided further, that if 
it shall at any time appear that such brook, 
creek or stream is used by the public for the 
purposes of navigation, the commission may, if 
Buch public use is substantial and reasonably 
necessitates the same, require locks or boat- 
ways to be erected and maintained in connec- 
tion with and as a condition of the right to 
erect and maintain such screens or structures 
and may fix the character of such locks or boat- 
ways. 

(6) The failure at any time for a period of 
two years to operate or maintain any such 
hatchery or fishery for which a certificate has 



76 State Conservation Commission. 

been issued hereunder for propagating or fish- 
ing rough fish therein shall work a forfeiture 
of such certificate and of all right thereunder. 
Such certificate and all rights thereunder shall 
be assignable and shall pass with the title or 
leasehold stated in the declaration upon which 
the same was issued and, if issued upon a lease- 
hold merely, shall terminate with such lease- 
hold. 

(7) Nothing in this section contained shall 
be construed to affect any public right of fish- 
ing or navigation, except as herein expressly 
provided. 

29.56 Forest County Game Refuge. Town- 
ship 38 north, of range 12 and 13 east, Forest 
county, shall be known as the Forest County 
Game Refuge. No person shall at any time or 
in any manner, hunt any game within said 
Refuge. 

29.57 Wild Life Refuges. (1) Establish- 
ment. The owner or owners of any tract, or 
contiguous tracts, of land comprising in the 
aggregate not less than one hundred and sixty 
acres located outside the limits of any city or 
village, may apply to the state conservation 
commission for the establishment of said lands 
as a wild life refuge. The commission may 
thereupon employ such means as it may deem 
wise to inform itself regarding the premises; 
and if, upon inspection, investigation, hearing, 
or otherwise, it shall appear to the satis- 
faction of the commission that the establish- 
ment of said lands as a wild life region will 
promote the conservation of one or more useful 
species or varieties native within this state, it 



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may by order designate and establish the said 
lands as a wild life refuge. 

(2) Enclosure. Within thirty days after the 
date of such order the owner or owners of the 
said lands shall enclose the same, wherever the 
same are not already enclosed by a fence, with 
a single substantial wire, and shall post and 
maintain along the said wire or fence, at each 
interval of twenty rods, signs or notices, fur- 
nished by the state conservation commission, 
proclaiming the establishment of said refuge. 

(3) Publication. No such order shall be ef- 
fective until at least thirty days after the date 
of its issue; nor unless the commission shall 
have caused notice thereof to be given by its 
publication, once in each week for three suc- 
cessive weeks next preceding the date of its 
effect, in at least one newspaper published in 
the county embracing the said lands. There- 
upon the said lands shall be a wild life refuge, 
and shall so remain for a period of not less 
than five years, from and after the date of effect 
stated in said order. 

(4) Absolute protection. No owner of lands 
embraced within any such wild life refuge, and 
no other person whatever, shall hunt or trap 
within the boundaries of any wild life refuge, 
state park, or state fish hatchery lands; nor 
have in his possession or under his control 
therein any gun or rifle, unless the same is un- 
loaded and knocked down or enclosed within its 
carrying case ; but nothing herein shall prohibit, 
prevent, or interfere with the state conserva- 
tion commission, or its deputies, agents or em- 
ployes, in the destruction of injurious animals. 



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(5) Animals procured by commission. The 
state conservation commission may place within 
any such wild life refuge, for the purpose of 
propagation, wild animals of any species or va- 
riety. 

29.575 Muskrat farming. (1) Muskrat farm- 
ers' licenses which shall authorize the licensee 
to engage in the business of breeding and sell- 
ing muskrats shall be issued subject to the 
provisions of section 29.09 by the state conserva- 
tion commission to any person duly applying 
therefor. 

(2) In addition to the fact required by sec- 
tion 29.09 each such licensee, and the applica- 
tion therefor, shall state the description of the 
premises to be covered by the license, the 
number of acres comprised in said description, 
and that the applicant or licensee is the owner 
or lessee thereof. The minimum fee for each 
such license shall be five dollars per year, and 
an additional charge of one cent per acre shall 
be paid for all premises covered by the license 
in excess of five hundred acres. 

(3) Any such licensee and his employees may 
take, trap, kill, possess, transport or sell any 
muskrats found upon the premises covered by 
such license at any time during the open season 
therefor, and such muskrats may be taken on 
such premises by said licensee and his em- 
ployees in any manner whatsoever except by 
shooting and spearing, provided however, that 
all such employees shall be required to take out 
the ordinary trapper's license. 

(4) On or about the first day of June each 
year each such licensee shall make a report to 



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the state conservation commission covering the 
period from the first day of May to the 30th 
day of April next preceding, upon blanks fur- 
nished by the commission, stating the number 
of his license, the total number and value of 
muskrats killed, transported or sold during said 
period under the provisions of this section, the 
names of the persons to whom the same were 
transported or sold, and such other information 
as may be required on the blanks furnished. 
Each such report shall be verified by the affi- 
davit of the licensee. 

DESTRUCTION OF INJURIOUS ANIMALS 

29.58 Muskrats Injuring Dams. The owner 
or lessee of any dam may in any manner cap- 
ture or kill muskrats at any time when said 
muskrats are injuring or destroying such dams 
or the levees connected therewith ; but shall not 
sell, barter, or give to any other person the 
skin of any muskrat captured or killed during 
close season therefor. 

• 29.59 Beaver Causing Damage. (1) Com- 
plaint. Upon complaint in writing, by the own- 
er or lessee of any lands, to the state conserva- 
tion commission, that beaver are causing dam- 
age thereto the commission shall employ such 
means as it may deem wise to inquire into the 
matter; and if, upon inspection, investigation, 
hearing, or otherwise, it shall appear to the 
satisfaction of the commission that the facts 
stated in such complaint are true, it may, by 
written permit, authorize the said owner or 
lessee to capture and remove such beaver, as 
hereinafter prescribed. 



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(2) Supervision. No beaver shall be captured 
or killed under such permit except only during 
such period of time, from and after the first day 
of January in each year, as may be limited by 
the commission, and then only under the direct 
supervision of a deputy conservation warden. 

(3) Disposition of animals. The owner or 
lessee shall capture, alive and without avoidable 
injury, such number of beaver as may be des- 
ignated by the commission, for delivery to zoo- 
logical parks or collections or for transplanta- 
tion to other localities within the state; all oth- 
ers shall be killed and skinned with care to 
conserve the value of the skins, which shall be 
shipped without delay to Madison, consigned to 
the state conservation commission. 

(4) Sale and disposition of proceeds. All 
such skins shall be sold by the commission, in 
the manner of a sale of confiscated game, and 
the proceeds paid into the conservation fund. 

(5) (a) Licenses for the taking, catching 
or killing of beaver and otter in the counties of 
Ashland, Bayfield, Clark, Chippewa, Douglas, 
Iron, Oneida, Rusk, Sawyer, Taylor, Price and 
Washburn during the open season therefor, as 
provided in paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of 
section 29.18, may be issued by the conserva- 
tion commission only to residents of this state 
who have resided herein for a period of not 
less than one year, upon application therefor, 
and no person shall take, catch or kill beaver 
or otter in said counties without procuring 
such a license. Application for such license 
shall be made on a blank form to be furnished 
and prescribed by said commission. Said li- 
cense shall be in force during the months of 



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February and March in the year for which the 
same was issued and the fee therefor shall be 
five dollars for each such license. No person 
shall take or kill beaver or otter at any time 
by shooting. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

(b) Under such license no trap shall be set 
before the first day of February and all traps 
shall be taken up by not later Chan nine o'clock 
P. M. on March thirty-first. No skin of any 
beaver or otter taken, caught or killed under 
said license shall be delivered, transported or 
shipped or had in possession unless it has at- 
tached thereto a distinctive tag to be prescribed 
and furnished by the commission. The fee for 
each such tag shall be fifty cents. Unused tags 
shall be returned to the commission at the 
time of making the report provided for in para- 
graph (c) of this subsection, and for each such 
tag so returned the commission shall refund 
fifty cents. Such tags shall be attached to 
some part of the head skin of the beaver or 
otter immediately after the skin has been re- 
moved from the carcass, and shall remain at- 
tached thereto until the skin is made into a 
fur garment. All packages of beaver skins de- 
livered, transported or shipped shall be plainly 
marked on the outside of the package showing 
the name and address of the licensee, the num- 
ber of his license and the number of the beaver 
or otter skins in the package. 

(c) Every licensee shall, not later than the 
first day of April following the date of the is- 
suance of his license, return the same to the 
commission for cancellation together with a re- 
port on a blank to be furnished by the commis- 



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sion stating the number of beavers or otter 
taken, caught or killed, the name of the county 
in which the same were taken, caught or killed, 
the disposition, if any, of the hides and the 
amount received therefor, the number of hides 
on hand and the reasonable value thereof. Such 
report shall also include a statement by the 
licensee that he is returning with said report 
all unused tags to the commission for refund. 
Each such report shall be subscribed and sworn 
to before a notary public, justice of the peace, 
county clerk or any other person authorized to 
administer oaths. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

29.595 Deer Causing Damage. Upon com- 
plaint in writing by the owner or lessee of any 
lands, to the state conservation commission, 
that deer are causing damage therein the com- 
mission shall inquire into the matter; and if 
upon inspection, investigation, hearing, or oth- 
erwise, it shall appear to the satisfaction of the 
commission that the facts stated in each such 
complaint are true, it may capture or destroy 
such deer, and dispose of the same as provided 
in subsection (3) and (4) of section 29.59. 



BOUNTY LAW 

29.60 (1) Any person who shall kill any 
wolf cub between the first day of March and 
the first day of November next following shall 
be entitled to a reward of four dollars, or any 
mature wolf at any time ten dollars, or any 
fox at any time two dollars, to be paid by the 
county wherein said wolf or fox was killed. 
By a majority vote at any annual meeting, the 



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county board of any county may increase any 
said rewards in said county, but no county 
shall pay more than six dollars for the killing 
of any wolf cub as above described. A reward 
for the killing of any wolf or fox shall be paid 
out of the state treasury equal to that paid by 
the county. 

C2) Any person claiming such reward shall 
exhibit the carcass of the animal killed, not 
earlier than eight o'clock A. M., nor later than 
five o'clock P. M., of any day within six days 
after the killing thereof to the chairman of the 
town wherein it was killed, and shall sign and 
deliver to him in the presence of at least one 
subscribing witness, a statement in substan- 
tially the following form: 

State of Wisconsin, County of 

Town of , ss. 

I, the undersigned, hereby declare and state 

that I did personally on the. . , day of 

r 19 , in said town kill or cause 

to be killed the animal here exhibited to the 
chairman of said town and that it is the car- 
cass of a. , that I did not raise or rear 

or cause to be raised or reared for me and did 
not in any way harbor the said animal, and I 
make this statement for the purpose of pro- 
curing a reward therefor from the county and 
state, and a certificate from said chairman for 
a 

Signed and delivered this day of , 19. .. 

, Claimant. 

In presence of: 



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Thereupon said chairman shall punch three 
holes through the base of the right ear of said 
hide not less than one-eighth inch in diameter, 
and may issue a certificate to said claimant in 
duplicate, in the following form: 






State of Wisconsin, County of 

Town of , ss. 

I, chairman of said town in said 

county, do certify that has this 

day of , 19.., at ....o'clock ..M., ex- 
hibited to me, the carcass of a which he 

claims to have killed in said town on the 

day of .., 19.., and that I punched 

three holes through the base of the right ear 
of said hide not less than one-eighth inch in 
diameter and that he delivered to me the state- 
ment in writing required by law of him to be 
made. 

Given under my hand and witnessed this 

day of , 19.... 

In the presence of: Chairman of the Town. 



Such statement and a duplicate copy of such 
certificate shall be filed and recorded in the 
office of the town clerk of said town within ten 
days after, the same is issued. 

(3) Thereupon such claimant shall take and 
subscribe before the chairman of the town, who 
is hereby authorized to administer the same, 
the following oath: 



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State of Wisconsin, County of. 
Town of , ss. 



I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm) 

that the hide produced by me is the hide of a 

taken and killed by me in the 

town of in said county on the day 

of. 19. . . ; that I made and delivered to 

the chairman of said town the statement re- 
quired by law, and exhibited to him the carcass 

of such ; that the certificate of said 

chairman herewith produced by me was signed 

in my presence and in the presence of 

and that I have not spared the life of any wolf 
or fox within my power to kill, and that each 
and every declaration and statement made by 
me in the statement delivered to the chairman 
of said town is true. 

, Claimant. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this, 
day of , 19 



Chairman of the Town of 

Within twenty days after subscribing such 
affidavit, the claimant shall deliver or forward, 
charges prepaid, to the county clerk the entire 
hide of such animal with three holes punched 
through the base of the right ear of said hide 
not less than one-eighth inch in diameter, to- 
gether with the certificate of the town chairman 
and the affidavit of the claimant, provided for in 
this section. Upon receipt thereof, the county 
clerk shall forthwith call into his office the reg- 
ister of deeds. 

(4) Such clerk or register of deeds shall 



86 State Conservation Commission. 

punch three holes in the base of the left ear 
not less than one-eighth inch in diameter, and 
the clerk shall issue an order on the county 
treasurer in favor of the claimant for the 
amount due from the county, giving his full 
name and post-office address and shall enter in 
a book the name of the claimant, date of oath 
and amount paid by said county to such claim- 
ant. The amount specified in such order shall 
be paid to the claimant by the treasurer, or 
shall be mailed to him as directed in such 
order. Within ten days the clerk shall transmit 
to the secretary of state such oath of the claim- 
ant together with a certificate on blanks fur- 
nished by the secretary of state in the follow- 
ing form: 

State of Wisconsin, | 
County of ) ss * 

I, , . , county clerk of said county, do 

certify that who subscribed the fore- 
going affidavit, presented or forwarded to me 
and the register of deeds at said time the 

entire hide of a with three distinct 

holes punched in the base of the right ear not 
less than one-eighth inch in diameter; that we 
punched three distinct holes in the base of 
the left ear not less than one-eighth inch in 
diameter before the signing of this certificate ; ■ 
that the certificate of the chairman of the town 

of is on file in the office of the county 

clerk; that said county of paid the said 

, claimant, who subscribed to the said 

oath the sum of dollars for the killing 

of said mentioned in said oath. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 



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hand and affixed my official seal at , this 

day of , 19.... 

, County Clerk. 

On receipt of such oath and certificate by 
the secretary of state, he shall audit such claim 
and issue his warrant for its payment. 

Note — The payment of bounties under the fore- 
going is made by fhe Department of Secretary of 
State, Madison, Wis. All letters regarding such 
bounties must be sent to that department instead of 
to the Conservation Commission. 

(5) For the destruction of wolves, wildcats or 
lynxes it is lawful to put out baits containing 
poison between the first day of December and 
the first day of March, but the same shall not 
be placed within eighty rods of a dwelling 
house, and the persons putting out such baits 
shall, before doing so, post in three public 
places in the town notice of putting out such 
baits, describing the land and location where 
such baits are placed and the date when put 
out, and within three days after the first day 
of March shall take up and effectively destroy 
the same. For the failure or neglect to so post 
such notices or to so take up and destroy said 
baits the person so putting out the same shall 
be liable for all damages resulting therefrom 
and shall be punished as provided in the last 
section of this chapter. The same reward 
shall be paid for any wolf so destroyed by poi- 
son as is herein provided for otherwise killing 
wolves. 

29,62 Removal of Injurious Rough Fish. (1) 
The state conservation commission is author- 
ized to take rough fish by means of seines only, 
or cause the same to be so taken, from any of 



State Conservation Commission. 



the inland waters of this state other than those 
specified in subsection (2), whenever it shall 
find that such fish are detrimental to, retard 
the propagation of, or destroy game fish there- 
in, except that fyke nets may be used in Rock 
and Jefferson counties. 

(2) The authority granted to the commis- 
sion by subsection (1) does not extend to Lake 
Koshkonong; any stream or river flowing into 
Green Bay or Lake Michigan except that part 
of the Fox river and its tributaries above the 
city of Appleton; the Mississippi river, Lake 
Pepin, Lake St. Groix, and the lakes, bays, 
bayous and sloughs tributary thereto and con- 
nected therewith; and any stream or river 
flowing into the Mississippi river, within a dis- 
tance of forty miles above the mouth Of such 
stream or river. 

(3) All fish taken under the authority of this 
section including rough fish and fish from which 
the spawn is removed shall be disposed of by 
the commission to municipalities conducting 
public markets. Any surplus remaining after 
said municipalities are supplied may be dis- 
posed of by the commission to the best interests 
of the state; and temporary fish ponds may be 
created in the waters of this state for the pur- 
pose of keeping such fish Until the same can be 
advantageously disposed of. 

(4) (a) The state conservation commission 
shall cause rough fish to be taken from the wa- 
ters of Lakes Winnebago, Winneconne, Poygan, 
Butte des Morts, Little Butte des Morts, Puck- 
away and the Wolf and Fox rivers at any time 
of the year. 

(b) The term "rough fish" as used in para- 



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graph (a) hereof, shall mean and include buf- 
falo fish, carp, ellpout, dogfish, sheepshead, bill- 
fish, red horse, suckers, lawyers and lizards. 

(c) Whenever the state conservation com- 
mission takes rough fish under the provisions 
of this subsection it shall dispose of the same 
at cost to towns, villages and cities maintaining 
public markets, whenever possible and the bal- 
ance of said rough fish shall be disposed of as 
the commission sees fit. 

PENALTIES 

29.63 General Penalty Provisions, (1) Pen- 
alties. Any person who, for himself, or by his 
agent, servant, or employe, or who, as agent, 
servant, or employe for another, violates any of 
the provisions of this chapter shall be punished, 
respectively, as follows: 

(a) For the unlawful use of any gill net in 
taking, catching or killing fish of any variety 
in any waters, or for the use of any net in tak- 
ing, catching or killing trout of any variety in 
inland waters, by a fine of not less than two 
hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, 
or by imprisonment in the county jail not less 
than nine months nor more than one year, or 
by both such fine and imprisonment. 

(b) For hunting, trapping, fishing, or clam- 
ming without a license duly issued, whenever a 
license therefor is required by the provisions of 
this chapter, or for hunting, under a receipt or 
other evidence of having filed an application, 
in anticipation of the issuance and delivery of 
such license, or for the violation of any pro- 
vision relating to deer, by a fine of not less 
than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, 



90 State Conservation Commission. , 

or by imprisonment in the county jail not less 
than thirty days nor more than six months, or 
by both such fine and imprisonment. 

(c) For the violation of any provision re- 
lating to game birds, by a fine of not less than 
fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, and 
in addition thereto five dollars for each bird 
affected by such violation, or by imprisonment 
in the county jail not less than thirty days nor 
more than six months, or by both such fine and 
imprisonment. 

(d) For any violation for which no other 
penalty is prescribed, by a fine of not less than 
fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, or by 
imprisonment in the county jail not less than 
thirty days nor more than six months, or by 
both such fine and imprisonment. 

(2) "Person" defined. The word "person" as 
used in this section includes natural persons, 
firms, associations, and corporations. 

(3) Revocation of license. Upon conviction 
of any person for any violation under any li- 
cense issued to such person, such license shall 
be immediately revoked and canceled, and no 
license shall be issued to such person for a 
period of one year thereafter. 

(4) Construction of penalty provisions. No 
penalty prescribed in any section of this chap- 
ter shall be held to be diminished because the 
violation for which it is prescribed falls also 
within the scope of a more general prohibition. 

(5) Presumptions. In any prosecution under 
this section it shall not be necessary for the 
state to allege or prove that the animals were 
not domesticated or were not taken for scien- 
tific purposes, or were taken or in possession 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 91 

or under control without a license or permit 
therefor; but the person claiming that such 
animals were domesticated, or were taken for 
scientific purposes, or were taken or in pos- 
session or under control under a license or 
permit duly issued, shall have the burden of 
proving such fact or facts. 

(6) Reward to informers. Any person other 
than the regular employes of the state con- 
servation commission, informing of the viola- 
tion of any provision of this chapter and as- 
sisting in the prosecution of the offender to 
conviction shall receive one-third of any fine 
imposed and collected thereupon. 

Setting spring guns. Section 4394. Any per- 
son who shall set or fix in any manner what- 
ever any gun, pistol or other firearm, or any 
spring gun for the purpose of killing game of 
any kind by coming in contact therewith or 
with any string, wire or other contrivance at- 
tached thereto, by which the same may be dis- 
charged, or for any other purpose, shall be pun- 
ished by imprisonment in the state prison not 
less than six months nor more than three 
years; and if the death of any person is caused 
thereby he shall be deemed guilty of man- 
slaughter in the second degree. 

False Impersonation as Deputy Conservation 
Warden, Section 4562a. Any person who shall 
falsely represent himself to be a deputy con- 
servation warden, or who shall assume to act 
as such without having been first duly appoint- 
ed as such, shall be punished by imprisonment 
in the county jail not more than six months, 
or by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars. 



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Alteration of Hunting License. Section 4562&. 
Any person who shall change or alter, in any 
manner, a license or deer tag for the pursuit, 
hunting or killing of game shall be punished by 
a fine of not less than two hundred dollars nor 
more than five hundred dollars, or by imprison- 
ment in the county jail not less than six months 
nor exceeding one yea)r. 

False Statement of Residence in Application 
for Hunting License. Section 4562c. Any per- 
son who shall make to any county clerk author- 
ized to issue licenses for the pursuit, hunting or 
killing of game a false statement concerning his 
residence, and thereby obtain such a license 
therefor as only residents of this state are en- 
titled to, shall be punished by a fine of not less 
than five hundred dollars nor more than one 
thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the 
county jail not less than four months nor more 
than one year, or in the state prison not exceed- 
ing one year. 

Section 4562$. Any person who shall break, 
remove or interfere with any seal or tag at- 
tached to any animal, carcass, article or other 
thing by the state conservation commission, or 
who shall meddle or interfere with any animal, 
carcass, article or other thing with such seal 
or tag attached, or who shall counterfeit any 
such seal or tag, attached or unattached, shall 
be punished by a fine of not less than two 
hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, or 
by imprisonment in the county jail not less 
than nine months nor more than one year, or 
by both such fine and imprisonmnent. 



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Taking Carrier Pigeon. Section 4565&. Any 
person who shall take, cateh, kill, impede in its 
progress or otherwise interfere with any carrier 
or homing pigeon shall be punished by a fine of 
not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty 
dollars, or "by imprisonment in the county jail 
for not more than three months. 

Hunting on Lands of Another. Section 4565(2. 
Any person who shall enter into any growing 
or standing grain not his own, with firearms 
or permit his dog to enter into any such grain, 
without the permission of the owner or occu- 
pant of the land on which such grain is situate 
or any person who shall, without permission of 
the owner, hunt or shoot on the premises of 
another inclosed by a Tence and used as a pas- 
ture for stock, or shall hunt or shoot upon any 
other land of another after being notified not 
to hunt or shoot thereon, shall be punished by a 
fine of not less than five dollars nor more than 
ten dollars and in default of payment thereof, 
shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less 
than ten days nor more than thirty days; pro- 
vided, that this section shall not limit or in 
any way affect civil liability on account of 
such trespass. Any owner or occupant of land 
may give the notice provided for in this section 
by maintaining signboards, at least one foot 
square, containing such notice upon at least 
every forty acres of the premises sought to be 
protected, in at least two conspicuous piaces, or 
by giving personal, written or verbal notice. 

Taking Frogs on Lands of Another. Section 
45Q5dm. It shall be unlawful for any person 
to take, catch, kill or have in his possession 



94 State Conservation Commission. 

any frogs or parts of frogs taken from lands 
owned by another without the consent of the 
owner of said lands, and any person violating 
the provisions of this section shall be punished 
by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, 
nor more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment 
in the county jail not less than fifteen days nor 
more than sixty days. 

Removal of Live Fish or Fish Eggs. Section 
4567&. Any person who shall come into this 
state and remove fish eggs or fish of any va- 
riety therefrom while the fish are alive, without 
having a permit from the state conservation 
commission to do so, shall be fined not less 
than fifty dollars or be imprisoned in the county 
jail not less than ten days nor more than thirty 
days. 

Criminal Trespass on Hatcheries. Section 
4567&. Any person who shall enter upon the 
grounds of any state fish hatchery for the pur- 
pose of unlawfully killing or taking any fish 
therefrom shall be punished by a fine of not 
less than one hundred dollars nor more than 
two hundred dollars or by imprisonment not 
less than thirty days nor more than sixty days. 

Killing Fish in State Hatchery. Section 
4567e. Any person who shall unlawfully and 
without proper authority kill, take or catch 
any fish from any waters or grounds belonging 
to or connected with any state -fish hatchery 
shall be punished as provided in section 4415. 

Injuring Property of Hatchery. Section 4567 /. 
Any person who shall injure any fish, or in any 
manner interfere harmfully with the ponds, 






Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 95 

streams, troughs or other property of the state 
fish hatchery, without lawful authority so to do, 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty 
dollars nor more than one hundred dollars; but 
this section shall in no wise change or affect 
any liability for arson or other burnings, nor 
burglary or other breakings, nor larceny of any 
property. 

Summary Arrest. Section 4567#. The person 
in charge of any fish hatchery is hereby em- 
powered and required summarily and without 
process to arrest any person, who has violated 
the provisions of either of the three preceding 
sections, found upon the grounds of any state 
fish hatchery, and to deliver such person forth- 
with to some proper officer for prosecution. 



96 State Conservation Commission. 






SPECIAL ORDERS ISSUED BY THE 

STATE CONSERVATION 

COMMISSION 

Under Section 29.21 of the Statutes. 
Order No, 2 

It is hereby ordered that the following regula- 
tions and restrictions shall pertain to the taking 
and catching of fish, as allowed by law from 
the waters of Lake Wisconsin. Said Lake Wis- 
consin shall be known as all the waters, in- 
cluding the sloughs, bays, bayous and back- 
waters of the Wisconsin river above the dam 
near Prairie du Sac up to that point where the 
north boundary line of the town of De Korra, 
Columbia county, intersects said river. 

Pickerel, Legal size 18 inches; daily bag 
limit, 10 fish. 

Northern Pike: Legal size, 18 inches; daily 
bag limit, 10 fish. 

Pike, Pike-Perch, Wall-Eyed Pike: Legal size 
16 inches; daily bag limit, 10 fish. 

Large Mouth Black Bass, Small Mouth Black 
Bass, Oswego Bass, Green Bass, Pink Eye Bass: 
Legal size, 12 inches; daily bag limit, 10 fish. 

Crappie, Blue Gill, Sun Fish: No size limit. 
Daily mixed bag limit of 50 fish. 

None of the above specified fish shall be sold 
or bartered. 

Get lines under section 29.37 shall be prohib- 
ited. The above described waters are now 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 97 

officially known as "Lake Wisconsin" and not 
as the Wisconsin river.. 

This order shall be in full force and effect on 
and after May 21, 1918. 

Any violation of this order shall be punished 
by a fine as prescribed for violations of Chapter 
29 of the Statutes as provided by subsection (4) 
of Section 29.21. 

Order No. 3 

It is hereby ordered that the folVwir.p regu- 
lations and restrictions shall p'.'tai'j to the 
taking and catching of fish iD .he waters of 
Balsam lake in Polk county, ?i ,co jin. 

That part of said lake kr.own as "The Rat- 
skin's Bay" in Section 2-3, lowrship 34, Range 
17 and that part of said lake known as "The 
Stumps" in Section 35, 36, Township 35, Range 
17 shall be known as reserve waters and no 
fish of any kind shall be taken from such wa- 
ters at any time or in any manner. 

This order shall be in full force and effect on 
and after June 2, 1918. 

Any violation of this order shall be punished 
by a fine as prescribed for violations of Chapter 
668, Laws of 1917, and as provided by sub-sec- 
tion (2) of section 29.21. 

Order No. 4 

It is hereby ordered that the following regu- 
lations shall pertain to the waters of the Bara- 
boo river in Sauk county. There shall be an 
absolute closed season for the taking of clams 
from March 1 to June 30, both dates inclusive. 



98 State Conservation Commission. 

That during the open season i. e. from July 1 to 
February 28, both dates inclusive, it shall be 
unlawful to take clams by the use of any crow- 
fodt bar, dredge, rake, or any other tool of 
equipment except that clamming may be done 
by hand only. Boats may be used in taking 
clams by hand. 

This order shall be in full force and effect on 
and after June 10, 1918. 

Any violation of this order shall be punished 
by a fine as prescribed for violations of chapter 
29 of the Statutes as provided by subsection (4) 
of section 29.21. 

Order No. 5 

It is hereby ordered, pursuant to section 
29.21 of the Statutes, that the Little Niagara or 
Minnow creek, be and is hereby declared a 
closed locality for the taking, catching or kill- 
ing of trout of any variety, from the first day 
of January to the 31st day of December, of each 
and every year. 



INDEX 



[References are to pages] 

Age, hunting- privilege limited, 11 

Animals, see Game; Game fish; Wild animals; and 

specific names: 
Arrests, 4 

Bag limits, bird and mammals, 21 

birds, mixed bag - , 20 

hook and line fishing-, 26 

mammals and birds, 21 
Bait, poison, 87 

Bass, close season and bag limit, 26 
Beaver, close season, 22 

injuring lands, 77 

skins, possession, 78-79 

traps near house or dam, 36 
Birds, see also Game; Game birds; Song birds: 

close seasons and bag limits, 21 

title in state, 2 
Black bass, close season and bag limit, 26 
Blinds, declared nuisances, 3 

on open "water, 36 
Boarding houses, serving game, 8, 9, 67 
Boats, declared nuisances, 3 

on open water, 3, 37 
Bounty law, 82 
Bobwhite, close seasons, 24 
Boys, below fifteen, barred from hunting, 11 
Boys' trapping permit, 15 
Brant, close seasons and bag limits, 23 
Buildings, access by wardens, 5, 6 

ice fishing, 39 
Bullheads, bag limit, 27 

Camps, dogs in, 35 

serving game, 67 
Canoe, on open water, 36 
Carcass, definition, 1 
Carp minnows, transportation, 67 . 



Index 



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Carriers, see Transportation 
Carrier pigeons, taking, 91 
Chemicals, deposit in waters, 41 
Chinese pheasant, close season, 24 
Cisco, net fishing- in inland waters, 54 

oatmeal may be used through ice, 41 

spearing, 55 
Catfish, close seasons and bag limits, 1, 27 
Clams, close seasons, 59, 60 

closed in Rock county, 62 

interstate license privilege, 59 

license required, 57 

regulation of taking, 57 
Close seasons, birds, 22 

clams, 60 

crawfish, 30 

frogs, 30 

hook and line fishing, 26 

mammals and birds, 22 

net fishing, outlying waters, 46 

possession of game during, 42 

transportation of game in, 64, 65, 66 
Clubs, serving game, 8, 9, 69 
Confiscation, game, 6 

property, 7 

sales, 8 
Constables, assistance by, 9 
Commission, powers of, 30, 70 
Coots, classed as ducks, 23 

close season and bag limits, 23 
County clerk, licenses issued by, 13 

set line licenses, 57 
Crawfish, close seasons, 30 

Dams, abandoned, 3 

fishing near, 37 

muskrats injuring, 79 

repairing on public lands, 4 
Damages, by beaver, 79 

deer, 82 

exemption of wardens from liability, 7 

muskrats, 79 

rough fish, removal, 87 



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Decoys, declared nuisance, 3 

use in hunting- game birds, 36 
Deer, close season and bag- limit, 21 

dogs in hunting, 35 

heads, possession of, 62 

home consumption, 62 

injuring lands, 82 

lights in hunting, 34 

methods of hunting, 35 

shining prohibited, 34 

skins, possession of, 63 

tag must be attached, 62 

transportation, 64, 66 
Deer tag, transfer prohibited, 11 
Definition, "carcass," 1 

"game," 1 

"game fish," 1 

"hunting," 2 

"inland waters," 2 

"outlying waters," 1, 2 

"persons," 76 

"rough fish," 1 

"wild animals," 1 
Deleterious substances, deposit in waters, 41 
Dip nets, inland waters, 44 

license not required, 42 

outlying waters, 46 
Dogs, declared nuisance, 3 

use in hunting, 35, 37 
Dogfish minnows, transportation, 69 
Ducks, close season and bag limit, 23 

rifle, use prohibited, 34, 36 
Dynamite, fishing with, 41 



Eggs, game birds, 63 

Elk, close season, 21 

English pheasant, close season, 23 

Explosives, fishing with, 41 

Express companies, see Transportation 



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False impersonation, wardens, 91 
Ferrets, declared nuisance, 3 

possession, 34 

rabbit hunting-, 36 

use prohibited, 33 

Fish, see Game fish; Rough fish 
Fish dealers' license, 16 
Fisher, close season, 22 
Fish hatcheries, 71, 73 

Fishing, cisco, spearing-, 57 

dip nets in inland waters, 44 

hook and line methods, 38 

ice fishing, 39 

licenses, general provisions, 11 

licenses, hook and line, 17 

methods lawful, 38 

minnow nets, 45 

net fishing, Mississippi waters, 52 

net fishing, outlying waters, 46 

net fishing, whitefish and cisco, 56 

net licenses, general provisions, 42 

nets, measurements, 44 

nets, restrictions, 43 

offal, deposit in waters, 42 

outlying waters, net fishing, 46 

persons must carry license, 11 

places, prohibited, 38 

set lines, inland waters, 57 

set lines, outlying waters, 46 

snag lines, 39 

spears, use of, 38 

spearing pickerel in Mississippi waters, 40 

whitefish and cisco nets, 56 
Fish lines, unattended, declared nuisance, 3 
Fishways, fishing near, 38 
Free lunch, serving game, 64 
Frogs, close season, 30 
Fox, bounty, 82 
Fur-bearing animals, methods of hunting, 33, 35 

skins, possession, 63 

trapping licenses, 15 



Index 103 

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Game, see also specific animals 

boarding- houses, serving-, 69 

close seasons and bag limits, 21 

clubs, serving, 69, 70 

confiscation, 6 

confiscation and sale, 8 

confiscated, use of, 8 

definition, 1 • - 

' free lunch, served at, 70 

hotels, serving, 69 

interstate transportation, 65 . 

licenses, (see Licenses) 

logging camps, serving, 69 

methods of hunzting, 33 

mining camps, serving, 69 

possession in close season, 62 

possession without license, 63 

restaurants, serving, 69 

shipments, labeling, 64' 

sales, general restrictions, 69 

saloons, serving-, 69, 70 

seizures, 6 

title in state, 2 

transportation in close season, 64 

transportation employes not to carry, 64 

transportation, interstate, 64 

transportation, labeling shipments, 64 

trunks and valises, 64 
Game Mrds, see also Game 

methods of hunting, 33, 35 

nests and eggs, 63 

transportation, 64 
Game fish, boarding houses serving, 69 

close season and bag limits, 26 

clubs, serving, 69 

confiscation, 6, 8, 9 

definition, 1 

foreign shipments, 68 

free lunch, served at, 70 

hook and line fishing, methods, 38 

hotels, serving, 69 

interstate transportation, 65 



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length, lawful, 26 

logging camps, serving, 69 

measurement, 25 

mining camps, serving, 69 

possession in close season, 62 

restaurant, serving, 69 

sales, general restrictions, 69 

saloons, serving, 69 

seizure, 6, 8, 9 

shipments, labeling, 64 

title in state, 2 

transportation in close season, 64 

transportation employes not to carry, 64 

transportation, labeling shipments, 64 

transportation from hatcheries, 72 

transportation, interstate, 65 

transportation, net fishing in outlying wa- 
ters, 67, 68 

transportation from inland waters, 67 

trunks and valises, 64 
Game refuges, Forest county, 76 

muskrat farms, 78 

wild life refuges, 76 
Geese, close season and bag limits, 23 

rifle may be used, 36 
Grouse, season, 23 
Guides, licenses, 34 

licenses, general provisions, 11 

wardens, acting as, 34 
Guinea-pigs, declared nuisance, 4 

use in hunting, 33 

Harmless birds, close season, 24 
Hotel, confiscated game, 9 

serving game, 69 
Hungarian partridge, close season, 24 
Hunting, age limit, 11 

citizenship required, 11 

declared nuisances, 3 

definition, 1 

licenses, general provisions, 11 

licenses, non-resident hunting, 14 



Index 105 

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licenses, resident hunting-, 3 
licenses, settlers, hunting-, 14 
methods, prohibited, 33 
non-citizens barred, 11 
persons must carry licenses, 11 

Indians, hunting, 11 

Ice fishing, buildings on ice, 3, 39 

cisco, oatmeal may be used, 41 

offal, leaving on ice, 42 

shelters, 40 

spearing cisco, 57 

spears in Mississippi waters, 40 

waters designated, 40 
Inland waters, see also Fishing 

dams, abandoned, 3 

declared nuisances, 3 

definition, 1 

deleterious substances, 41 

offal, deposit of, 42 
Interstate comity, clamming license privileges, 
61 

license privileges, 18 

wardens, 9 

Investigations, by wardens, 4 
Lakes, deer hunting on, 35 

fish hatcheries, private, 71 
Landing nets, 42 

Liability, exemption of wardens, 7 
Licenses, see also Fishing 

application, 11 

carrying on person, 11 

clamming, 59 

clamming, interstate privileges, 61 

duplicates, 12 

form, 12 

fish dealers, 16 

game, possession without license, C3 

general provisions, 11 

guides, 34 

hunting, alteration, 92 



106 



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hunting-, false statement, 92 

hunting - , non-resident, 14 

hunting, resident, 13 

hunting, settlers, 14 

interstate license privileges, 18 

muskrat farming, 7S 

net fishing, general restrictions, 42 

net fishing, Mississippi waters, 45 

net fishing, outlying waters, 46 

net fishing, whitefish and cisco, 56 

nonresident hunting, 14 

persons hunting, fishing or trapping, must 
carry, 11 

possession of game without license, 63 

record of, 13 

resident hunting licenses, 13 

revocation of, 90 

set lines, inland waters, 57 

set lines, outlying waters, 46 

settlers hunting licenses, 14 

transfer prohibited, 11 

trapping, 15 
Lights, declared nuisances, 3 

deer hunting, 35 

use in hunting prohibited, 33 
Locks, fishing near, 37 
Logging- camps, dogs in, 35 

serving game, 69 

Mammals, close season and bag limits, 21 
Marten, close season, 22 
Medicated bait, fishing with, 41 
Mining camps, dogs in, 35 

game serving, 69 
Mink, season, 22 

methods of hunting, 35 

skin, possession, 63 
Minnow nets, license not required, 42 

outlying waters, 49 

regulations, 45 
Minnows, carp and dogfish, transportation, G9 
Mississippi waters, net fishing regulated, 52 

spearing pickerel through ice, 40 



107 



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Mongolian pheasants, close season, 24 
Moose, close season, 21 
Mudhens, classed as ducks, 23 

close season and bag- limit, 23 
Muskellunge, close season and bag limit, 27 
Muskrat, close season, 22 

farming- license, 78 

injuring dams, 79 

methods of taking, 35, 36 

skin, possession of, 63 

traps near houses, 35, 36 
Mussels, see Clams 

Wests, game birds, 63 
IV et licenses, see Fishing 
Nets, declared nuisance, 3 

dip nets, inland "waters, 44 

fishing, license required, 42 

inland waters, whitefish and cisco, 56 

landing nets, 42 

measurements, 44 

minnow nets, 45 

Mississippi waters, 52 

outlying waters, 46 

restrictions on use, 42 

use in hunting prohibited, 33 
Non-residents, citizens only can hunt, 11 

fishing license, hook and line, 17 

hunting licenses, 14 
Nuisances, declared, 3 
Oatmeal, fishing cisco through ice, 41 
Offal, deposit in waters, 42 
Open water, definition, 36 

hunting, 36 
Orders toy commission, 96 
Otter, season, 22 

skins, possession, 80 
Outlying waters, declared nuisances, 3 

definition, 2 

deleterious substances, 41 

minnow nets, 45 

net fishing, general provisions, 42 

net fishing, regulated, 46 



108 Index 

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net fishing-, time for drawing- nets, 43 

transportation of game fish, 64, 66 
Packages, labeling, false, 6 

labeling shipments, 64 

opening, by wardens, 6 
Partridge, season, 24 
Penalties, arrests, 4 

carrier pigeon, taking, 93 

confiscation, 2, 6 

declared nuisance, destruction, 3 

dynamite, 41 

false impersonation, 91 

general provisions, 89 

hunting on lands of another, 93 

license, alteration, 92 

license, false statement, 92 

net fishing, outlying waters, 46 

seals of commission, breaking, 92 

seizures, 2, 6 

serving game, 69 

snag lines, 38 

spring guns, 91 

stupefactives, 41 

trespass on private hatcheries, 72 
Perch, close season and bag limits, 27 
Persons, definition, 90 

license must be carried on person, 11 
Pickerel, close season and bag limits, 27 

foreign shipments, 68 

spearing through ice, 40 
Pike, close season and bag limits, 27 

foreign shipments, 68 
Pitfalls, use in hunting, 33 
Pivet guns, declared nuisances, 3 

use in hunting, 33 
Plover, season and bag limits, 23 
Police officers, assistance by, 9 
Police powers, of wardens, 4 

interstate comity, 9 
Poison bait, 87 
Ponds, deer hunting on, 35 

private fish hatcheries, 71, 73 



Index 109' 

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Possession, carriers' employes not to carry game, 
64 

deer, regulation, 62 

ferrets, 33 

frogs, 30 

game fish during close season, 62 

game, without license, 63 

game fish during close season. 62 

heads and skins, 63 

skins of deer, 63 

skins of fur-bearing animals, 63 

title is in state, 2 
Power of commission, 30, 70 
Pvairie chicken, season, 23 
Prosecutions, definition of "persons," 90 

penalty provisions, 89 

rewards to informers, 91 

Quail, close season, 24 

Babbits, season and bag limits, 23 

methods of hunting, 36 
Raccoon, season and bag limits, 22 
• den or" tree, 36 

skin, possession, 63 
Raft, hunting on open water, 37 
Railroad companies, see Transportation 
Rails, season and bag limits, 23 
Rats, declared nuisance, 4 

use in hunting, 33 
Refug-es, game, 76 

game, Forest county, 76 

muskrat farming, 78 
Refuse, deposit in waters, 41, 42 
Reports, clamming licenses, 61 ■ 

net fishing, Mississippi waters, 56 

net fishing, outlying waters, 52 

trapping licenses, 15 
Restaurants, confiscated game, use, 8, 9 

serving game, 69, 70 
Rewards to informers, 91 
Rice hens, season and bag limits, 23 
Rifle, use in hunting game birds, 34, 36 
Roach, season, 28 
Rock bass, season and bag limit, 26 



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though fish, carp minnows, 69 

definition, 1 

dogfish minnows, 69 

net fishing - , Mississippi waters, 52 

net fishing - , re-turn to waters, 52 

removal and sale by commission, 87 

spears, use of, 38 

title is in state, 2 

transportation, Mississippi waters, 5 6 
Rush lake, special provisions, 29, 30 

Sales, beaver doing damage, 79 

deer doing damage, 82 

game, general restrictions* 69 

game fish, general restrictions, 69 
Saloons, serving game, 69 
Salt licks, deer hunting, 35 
Scaffolds, deer hunting, 35 
Screens, declared nuisances, 3 
Scientist's certificate, 19 
Seals of commission, breaking, 92 
Search warrants, 5 
Seizures, game, 6 

property, 7 

title to wild animals, 2 
Set guns, declared nuisances, 3 
Set lines, declared nuisances, 3 

inland waters, 57 

outlying waters, 46 
Settlers' 60 days' residence, 14 
Shelters, ice fishing, declared nuisances, 3 

ice fishing, use, 39 
Sheriffs, assistance by, 9 
Shipments, see also Transportation 

confiscation of entire shipment, 7 

labeling, 64 
Silver bass, season and bag limit, 26 
Skins, beaver doing damage, 79 

deer doing damage, 82 

muskrats doing damage, 79 

possession, deer, 62 

possession, fur-bearing animals, 63 



Index 111 

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Skunk, season, 22 

skin, possession, 63 

den, 36 
Sloughs, private fish hatcheries, 73 
Snag lines, prohibited, 39 
Snares, declared nuisances, 3 

use in hunting-, 36 
Snipe, season and bag- limits, 23 
Smith creek, 30 
Song birds, close season, 24 
Special orders, 86 
Spears, cisco, 57 

ice fishing, Mississippi waters, 40 

rough fish, 38 
Spring guns, declared nuisances, 3 

penalty, 91 

use in hunting, 33 
Spring holes, fishing in, 37 
Spruce hens, season, 24 
Squirrels, season and bag limits, 23 
Starkey's lake, 30 
Storage places, access to, 6 
Streams, deer hunting on, 35 

deleterious substances, 41 

hatcheries, private, 71 

offal, deposit in, 41 

trout, fishing restrictions, 37 

trout, spearing prohibited, 38 
Stupefactives, fishing with, 41 
Sturgeon, close season, 27 
Sunfish, season, 28 
Swans, close season, 23 
Swivel gups, declared nuisances, 3 

use in hunting, 33 
Title, to wild animals, in state, 2 
Transportation, close season, during, 64 

deer, 66 

employes of carrier not to carry game, 64 

foreign shipments 68 

game, general restrictions, 64 

game birds, restrictions, 66 

game fish, restrictions, 66 

game fish in close season, 64 

game fish from hatcheries, 72 



112 Index 

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interstate, 65 

opening- packages, 6 

packages, labeling, 64 

rough fish, Mississippi waters, 55, 56 

trunks and valises containing game, 64 
Trapping, declared nuisances, 3 

licenses, general provisions, 11 

licenses, 15 

persons must carry license, 11 

reports, 16 
Traps, declared nuisances, 3 
Trespass, hunting on lands of another, 93 
Trout, close seasons and bag limits, 26 

fishing restrictions, 37 
Trout streams, restrictions, 37 

spearing in, 38 
Trunks, game transported in, 64 

Valises, game transported in, 64 
"Vehicles, carrying guns in, 33 

Wardens, exemption from liability, 7 

false impersonation, 91 

guides as special wardens, 35 

interstate comity, 9 

liability, exemption from, 7 

net fishing, licensee to carry warden, 43 

packages, opening, 6 

police officers to assist, 9 

police powers, 4 

storage places, access to, 6 
Warehouses, access by wardens, 6 
Waters, see Inland waters; Open water; Outlying 

waters 
Weasles, declared nuisances, 4 

use in hunting, 33 
White bass, season and bag limit, 26 
Whitefish, net fishing in inland waters, 5 6 
Wild animals, see also Fur-hearing animals; 
Game; Game fish 

definition, 1 

title in state, 2 
Wind shields, ice fishing, 40 
Woodcock, close seasons, 23 
Wolf bounty, 82 



ASK YOUR GUIDE 



FOR HIS 



LICENSE 
CARD 



SEE THAT HE CARRIES HIS 

BADGE 

SEE THAT YOUR GUIDE IS 

LICENSED BY THE STATE 

WHICH PLACES HIM AS A 

PROFESSIONAL GUIDE 

WHO KNOWS HIS 

BUSINESS 




PREVENT i™?, RY 0F CONGRESS 

The Conservation 

best to prevent for 

help of every perso: ., ,. MI ,,, (f /fB/f (!IMfl! 

for business or plei ® 003 025 847 2 • 

f ective. 

The Danger from Forest Fires Cannot be 

Eliminated without the Cooperation of Every 

Citizen of the State. 

IF YOU ARE A GUIDE, the burning of forests 
where you take parties for pleasure, means 
the loss of your source of employment. 

IF YOU ARE A CAMPER, a single bad forest 
fire may destroy the attractive features of 
your favorite camp site. 

IF YOU ARE A FISHERMAN OR HUNTER, 
your sport may be spoiled by the burnini 
over of the forest you visit every year. 

FIRE PREVENTION MEANS 

Increased value of property 

Flourishing industries 

More fish and game 

Beautiful scenery 

Freer use of forest land for all. 

DON'T leave burning cigars, cigarettes or pipe 
ashes where they may set fire to inflam- 
mable material. 

DON'T leave your camp fire until you are AB- 
SOLUTELY SURE it is out. 

DON'T set fires to clear land or burn brush in 
dry times. 

PUT OUT ALL FIRES YOU SEE IF YOU CAN 
If the fire is too large for you to put out 

alone, notify the nearest Conservation Warden, 

AT ONCE. By putting out small fires you can 

prevent big ones. 

NO FORESTS— NO GAME 



